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 Read Quote
So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me. Kenneth L. Pike Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. Kenneth L. Pike Read Quote
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. Kenneth L. Pike Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 L. Pike Read Quote