"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of……" — 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 selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."
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Kenneth Burke
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19 Quotes by Kenneth Burke
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The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
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The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.
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Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew:…
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Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
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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…
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The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is]…
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Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality;…
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Stories are equipment for living.
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Dignity belongs to the conquered....
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Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
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You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea,…
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Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as…
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