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Kenneth L. Pike
American
Sociologist
About the author
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Language
#Meaning
#Behavior
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,
American
Sociologist
#Life
#God
#Christianity
#Commitment
#Science
#Power
#Acceptance
#Conflict
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,
American
Sociologist
#Universe
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,
American
Sociologist
#Act
#Truth
#Guilt
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Study
#Man
#Universe
#Mind
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Eyes
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Responsibility
#Truth
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,
American
Sociologist
#Belief
#Research
#Knowledge
#Development
#Fact
#Aesthetics
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Language
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Today
#Theory
#Yesterday
#Practicality
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,
American
Sociologist
#Theory
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,
American
Sociologist
#Language
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#God
#Truth
#Nature
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,
American
Sociologist
#Science
#Facts
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Identity
#Personality
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,
American
Sociologist
#Life
#God
#Christianity
#Man
#Living
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Results
#Courage
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,
American
Sociologist
#Culture
#Society
#Control
#Behavior
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,
American
Sociologist
#Christianity
#Ability
#Experience
#Facts
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Language
#Truth
#Nature
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Success
#May
#Failure
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.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Society
#Change
#Behavior
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,
American
Sociologist
#Universe
#Language
#Rules
#Behavior
#Perspective
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#People
#Value
#Respectability
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,
American
Sociologist
#Will
#Trouble
#Conscience
The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#World
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,
American
Sociologist
#Philosophy
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Office
#Theory
#Philosophy
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#God
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,
American
Sociologist
#Science
#Theology
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Present
#Change
#Communication
#Possibility
Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist