The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.
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.
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any select… - Kenneth Burke
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any select…
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.
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