"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological……" — Kenneth Burke
"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."
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19 Quotes by Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Burke has 19 quotes on this site.
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Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of…
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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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More Analogue Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
— Noam Chomsky
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship…
— Unknown Author
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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a…
— Richard Owen
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress…
— Edward Bellamy
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Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
— Austin O'Malley
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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is,…
— Wolfgang Kohler
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth…
— Martin Gardner
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I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I…
— Billy Sherwood
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the…
— Paul Carus
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken…
— David Abram
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Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a…
— Lewis Baltz
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