Kenneth Lee Pike Quotes

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Believe, Guilt, Pay

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• When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

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  Principles, Conformity, Abstract

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• 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.

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  Anger, Society, Identity

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

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  Responsibility, Following

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• 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.

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  Perspective, Sound, Language

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• 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.

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  Commitment, Acceptance, Conflict

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

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  Language, Behavior, Ifs

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

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  Eye, Views, Different

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1958). “Language and Life”

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• 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.

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  Stress, Trust In God, Enough

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• Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

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  Degrees, Tools, Adequate

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• Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

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  Personality, Important, Identity

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

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  Philosophy, Office, Use

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• 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.

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  Discipline, Coherence, Facts

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• Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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  Courage, Source, Results

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• Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

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  Language, Methodology, Should

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter

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

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  Philosophy, Would Be, Way

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• Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

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  Inward, May

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• God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

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  Analysis, Sample

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• Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

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  Yesterday, Today, Accepted

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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

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  People, Granted, Universal

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• The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

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  Holiness, Sin

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• 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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  Believe, Normal, Theology

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

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

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  Topics, Trouble, Scholar

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

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  Dirty, Broken, Heaven

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