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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/the-universe-would-appear-to-be-something-like-a-piece-of-cheese-it/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

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## More by Kenneth Burke

> [ The most characteristic concern of rhetoric \[is\] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends…the basic function of rhetoric \[is\] the use of words… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/the-most-characteristic-concern-of-rhetoric-is-the-manipulation-of/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [Man is rotten with perfection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/man-is-rotten-with-perfection/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [“It's more complicated than that." TL in "The Rhetoric of Religion”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/it-s-more-complicated-than-that-tl-in-the-rhetoric-of-religion/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [“With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/with-my-book-in-one-hand-and-my-drink-in-the-other-what-more-could-i/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/creation-implies-authority-in-the-sense-of-originator/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/if-decisions-were-a-choice-between-alternatives-decisions-would-come/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/for-no-continuity-of-social-act-is-possible-without-a-corresponding/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 condition by instruments of his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/man-is-the-symbol-using-symbol-making-symbol-misusing-animal-inventor/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/the-use-of-words-by-human-agents-to-form-attitudes-or-induce/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/you-persuade-a-man-only-insofar-as-you-can-talk-his-language-by/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/rhetoric-is-rooted-in-an-essential-function-of-language-itself-a/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/we-not-only-interpret-the-character-of-events-we-may-also-interpret/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [Language does our thinking for us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/language-does-our-thinking-for-us/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [“Ecology teaches us “that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone,” wrote Burke more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/ecology-teaches-us-that-the-total-economy-of-the-planet-cannot-be/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

> [A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-burke/a-way-of-seeing-is-also-a-way-of-not-seeing/)

[Kenneth Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-burke/)

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