“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 instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.” MenSpiritOrderNaturalAnimalConditionsNegativePerfectionInstrumentsMovedSymbolsHierarchyInventorRotten Book:Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method Source: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method
“You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his” MenWayIdeasOrderLanguageAttitudeSpeechGesturesIdentifying Book:A Rhetoric of Motives Source: A Rhetoric of Motives
