Kenneth Lee Pike Quotes

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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 society as we know it.

Kenneth Lee Pike
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Kenneth Lee Pike
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, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Kenneth Lee Pike
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Kenneth Lee Pike
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 we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

Kenneth Lee Pike
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Kenneth Lee Pike
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Kenneth Lee Pike
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

Kenneth Lee Pike
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Kenneth Lee Pike
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Kenneth Lee Pike
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Kenneth Lee Pike
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Kenneth Lee Pike
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Kenneth Lee Pike
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 the life of the concretely living Christ.

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There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

Kenneth Lee Pike
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Kenneth Lee Pike