Occupation: Anthropologist Birth: June 9, 1912 Death: December 31, 2000
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….
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….
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success..
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherenc….
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 ….
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such..
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation..
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning..
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements..
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory..
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results..
All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven..
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions..
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar..
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language..
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..
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis..
The detached observer's view is one window on the world..
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study..
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake..
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….