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

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Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1972). “Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike”

Kenneth Lee Pike

#Believe Quotes #Normal Quotes #Theology Quotes

“You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.”
“All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.”

Source : John Henry Newman (1937). “The Newman book of religion”
“People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.”
“Fear isn't in my vocabulary.”
“Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.”
“I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.”
“Morality is a personal matter.”
“Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.”

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