Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. - Kenneth L. Pike

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

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

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. - Kenneth L. Pike

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

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

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. - Kenneth L. Pike

PURE FORMALISM as such, without attention to referential social axioms, is powerless to capture the relevance of many discourse grammatical functions. - Kenneth L. Pike

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

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