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.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.