Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Duva Burke was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics.
“With my book in one handAnd my drink in the otherWhat more could I wantBut fame,Better health,And ten million dollars?”
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.”
Kenneth Burke
“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.”
Kenneth Burke
“Ecology teaches us “that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone,” wrote Burke more than 70 years ago, “but that the exploiting part must eventually suffer if it too greatly disturbs the balance of the whole.”
Kenneth Burke
“It's more complicated than that." TL in "The Rhetoric of Religion”
Kenneth Burke