Susanne Langer Quotes

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

To know is not less than to feel.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.