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 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 Quote

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
- Kenneth L. Pike Quote

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
- Kenneth L. Pike Quote

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
- Kenneth L. Pike Quote

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 Quote

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
- Kenneth L. Pike Quote

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 Quote

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
- Kenneth L. Pike 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 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 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 Quote

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 Quote

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
- Kenneth L. Pike Quote

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
- Kenneth L. Pike Quote

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
- Kenneth L. Pike 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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote