Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
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.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
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 to us.
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 in conflict.
There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
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.
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
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, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
