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.

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

  • Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

  • Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

  • 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.