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Kenneth L. Pike
June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000
Nationality: American
Category: Sociologist
Subcategory: American Sociologist

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

   

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.

   

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

   

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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?

   

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

   

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.

   

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

   

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

   

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

   

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