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.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

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.

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

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.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.