Religion Quote by Kenneth Burke Download Open image ““It's more complicated than that." TL in "The Rhetoric of Religion”” — Kenneth Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
“...religious beliefs are simply beyond the scope of rational discourse.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their… — Jakob Böhme Copy Share Image
“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter… — Beth McMullen Copy Share Image
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“May I just say that religion and logic don't always go together, and then we can move on.” — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
“Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person.” — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
“Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.” — Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney Copy Share Image
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… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
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… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
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