"Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of……" — 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 as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols."
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Kenneth Burke
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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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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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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been…
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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
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Create each day anew.
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every…
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.…
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