Nature Quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks

“How can a man who, for a significant phase of his formation, shared his master’s opposition to rhetoric have in maturity composed a masterpiece…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of…

— Aristotle

“Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.”

— Leonard Koren

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,…

— Jean-François Lyotard

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.”

— Veronica Hollinger

Do I know what rhetorical means?

— Homer

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

— 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…

— Kenneth Burke

“postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell”

— Heath White

“Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are very good…

— Douglas Wilson

“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.”

— Sarah Arthur