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Susanne Langer Quotes on Mind

Susanne Knauth Langer was an American philosopher of mind, art, and language and one of the first women to achieve a major reputation in twentieth-century American philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Susanne Langer on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Susanne Langer:

    “Art is the symbolic expression of human feeling.”

  • Attributed to Susanne Langer:

    “The mind is a symbol-making organ.”

  • Attributed to Susanne Langer:

    “Music is the morphology of feeling.”

  • Attributed to Susanne Langer:

    “Symbols are the principal instruments of human thought.”

  • Attributed to Susanne Langer:

    “A philosophy without an aesthetic is a philosophy that has not understood mind.”