Kenneth L. Pike

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.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

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

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

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.

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.

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

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.