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.

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

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

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

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.

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.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

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?

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

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

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

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.

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.

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

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

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

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

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

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.

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

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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.

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.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

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.

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

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

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.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

The detached observers view is one window on the world.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

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.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.