Certain Quote by Kenneth Burke

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

— Ivan Pavlov

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality;…

— Kenneth Burke

“If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know,…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

“Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed…

— Adam Smith

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

— Protagoras

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

— William Blake

“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

How one encounters reality is a choice.

— Martin Heidegger

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse

We live in a description of reality.

— Jean Houston