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.

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.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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