Kenneth Lee Pike famous quotes

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 in conflict.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Commitment #Acceptance #Conflict

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

#Stress #Trust In God #Enough

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

#Communication #Possibility #Function

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Philosophy #Office #Use

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

#Men #Mind #Study

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.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Degrees #Study #Linguistics

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Discipline #Coherence #Facts

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Analysis #Sample

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Personality #Important #Identity

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Philosophy #Would Be #Way

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

#Language #Behavior

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Topics #Trouble #Scholar

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#People #Granted #Respectability

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Thinking

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

#Yesterday #Today #Accepted

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Responsibility #Following

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

#Language #Theory #Methodology

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

#Anger #Identity #Able

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

#Perspective #Sound #Language

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

#Believe #Normal #Theology

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Degrees #Tools #Adequate

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

#Principles #Conformity #Abstract

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 guilt.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Believe #Guilt #Pay

All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Dirty #Broken #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 the life of the concretely living Christ.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Christian #Fall #Men

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

#Courage #Source #Results

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

#Language #Revelations #Structure

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Views #World #Window

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

#Eye #Views #Different

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

#Inward #May