"The marvelous thing is that even in studying……" — Kenneth Lee Pike
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
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30 Quotes by Kenneth Lee Pike
Kenneth Lee Pike has 30 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it…
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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so,…
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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of…
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some…
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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
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The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led…
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All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be…
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Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by…
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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
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