Occupation: Anthropologist Birth: June 9, 1912 Death: December 31, 2000
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 ….
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning..
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, a….
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation..
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 i….
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..
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window..
Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concrete….
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake..
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it..
The detached observer's view is one window on the world..
All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven..
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….
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study..
The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness..
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions..
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis..
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual..
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results..
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..