Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

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.

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.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

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.