The primal and perennial work of social organization is not… - Susanne Langer

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The primal and perennial work of social organization is not to fix the bounds of behavior as permanent lines, which would make all evolutionary process impossible, but to retrieve the vital balance every time some act, public or private, has upset it.

Susanne Langer

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Susanne Katherina Langer (20 December 1895 – 17 July 1985) was an American philosopher of art, remembered for her 1942 book Philosophy in a New Key.

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Alternative Names: Susanne Knauth • Susanne K. Langer • Susanne K. née Knauth • Susanne Katherina Langer • Susanne Katherina née Knauth • Susanne K. nee Knauth • Susanne Katherina nee Knauth

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In a work of art, however modest, the peculiar character of life is always reflected in the fact that it has no parts which keep their qualitative identity in isolation. In the simplest design, the virtual constituents are indivisible, and inalienable from the whole.

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

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