Susanne Langer Quotes

The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

The march of the human mind is slow.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

I have always been interested in that relationship between what happens in our head and what happens in the world.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

Your mind grows through use.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.