Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. Kenneth L. Pike More Quotes by Kenneth L. Pike More Quotes From Kenneth L. Pike Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. Kenneth L. Pike form important personality identity Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. Kenneth L. Pike more theory yesterday today The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. Kenneth L. Pike small man universe mind The detached observer's view is one window on the world. Kenneth L. Pike observer view window world 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 price guilt truth believe 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 treat activity theory should 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 grant more science facts 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 power god life science 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 control society behavior culture It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. Kenneth L. Pike guess value universal people 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 how individual language speak God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. Kenneth L. Pike cannot sample analysis god 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 will everything know trouble There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake. Kenneth L. Pike wake without responsibility truth 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 rules perspective universe language The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. Kenneth L. Pike eyes view different window 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 man god life way I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. Kenneth L. Pike inside live office philosophy 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 person view research knowledge Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. Kenneth L. Pike structure language nature truth
