Kenneth Lee Pike Quotes

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• Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been…
• Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
• Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human…
• Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other,…
• Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
• Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
• When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
• The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid…
• All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.
• Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through…
• Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
• Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
• The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
• The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
• There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
• Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
• Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when…
• Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
• I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
• The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

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