Words matter. These are the best Kenneth L. Pike Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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?
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
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.
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.
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.
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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.
The detached observer’s view is one window on the world.
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble – and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Today’s practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday’s theory.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
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.
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
