The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with h… - Kenneth Burke
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with h…
- Kenneth Burke
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. - Kenneth Burke
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
Language does our thinking for us. - Kenneth Burke
Language does our thinking for us.
Man is rotten with perfection. - Kenneth Burke
Man is rotten with perfection.
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as… - Kenneth Burke
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as…
Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull. - Kenneth Burke
Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. - Kenneth Burke
A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning. - Kenneth Burke
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural co… - Kenneth Burke
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural co…
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