Quotes Kenneth L. Pike

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the ground...

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of l...

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward r...

Experimental syntax, of a mathematical type, geared to refer...

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to bel...

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis....

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the o...

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extr...

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there wou...

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meanin...

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any ...

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies...

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precisi...

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, r...

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is....

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize...

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward succes...

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in referen...

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls t...

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the ...

The detached observer's view is one window on the world....

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we...

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as ...

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more com...

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native par...