Today’s practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday’s theory. – Kenneth L. Pike
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. – Kenneth L. Pike
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 L. Pike
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. – Kenneth L. Pike
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. – Kenneth L. Pike
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. – Kenneth L. Pike
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. – Kenneth L. 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 L. Pike
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. – Kenneth L. Pike
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. – Kenneth L. Pike
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. – Kenneth L. Pike
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. – Kenneth L. Pike
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 L. Pike
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. – Kenneth L. Pike
We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks – otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex? – Kenneth L. Pike
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 L. 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. – Kenneth L. Pike
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. – Kenneth L. Pike
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. – Kenneth L. Pike
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 L. Pike
