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Kenneth L. Pike
American Sociologist
Born: Jun 9, 1912
Died: Dec 31, 2000
Behavior Could God Language Truth Universe
Related authors: C. Wright Mills Charles Horton Cooley Deborah Tannen Ivan Illich Matthew Desmond Talcott Parsons Thomas E. Mann William Julius Wilson
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
Culture Behavior Control Society Members Vary Another Greater Methods Controls Lesser Lesser Extent Universal Extent
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. Kenneth L. Pike
Today Yesterday More Practicality Accepted Than Often Form Theory
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. Kenneth L. Pike
Man Mind Universe Complex More Small Study Beyond Than Sample
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
Truth Guilt Believe Sees Price Led Refusing Act Avoid Pays
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 Verbal Nonverbal Methodology Unified Created Should Organized Theory Whole Activity
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
Science Easily Total More Facts Disciplines Acknowledgement Grant Prepared Unit Coherence
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
Life God Science Acceptance Commitment Conflict Power Christianity Both Lays Been Personal Often Which Groundwork
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. Kenneth L. Pike
People Value Guess Respectability Would Also Them Granted Societies Universal
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
Speak Language Assume Otherwise Complex Structure Could Individual He How Least His Begin Which Speaks Internal
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. Kenneth L. Pike
God Analysis Reduced Sample Cannot
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake. Kenneth L. Pike
Truth Responsibility Following Without Wake
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
Behavior Perspective Language Universe Other Rules System Total Clause Unrelated Observer Merely Context Sounds Discourse Integrating Meanings Each Coherent Set
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. Kenneth L. Pike
Live Philosophy Would Inside Allow Outside Office Same Wanted Theory Uses
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
Science Believe Statements Some True Within Discourse Normal Fruitful Us Requires Theology
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning. Kenneth L. Pike
Behavior Language Could Affect Did Meaning
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
Pure Philosophy Way Would Would-Be Adopt Could Scholar Were Choose Mechanism
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Kenneth L. Pike
Truth God Nature Abstract Principle Conform
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
Change Behavior Society Unless Recognize Able Spite Know Identities Normal Human Social Requires Human Society
Nobody is as good as he thinks he is. Kenneth L. Pike
Good He Nobody Thinks
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
Degree Universe Find Some Marvelous Marvelous Thing Studying Linguistics Intelligible Ordered Us Whole Even Thing

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