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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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Explore more quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

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

"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."
Behavior

"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."
Knowledge

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

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

"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."
Truth

"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."
Society

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

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

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