Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

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

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?

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Today’s practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday’s theory.

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.