“Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely impo...” — Kenneth L. Pike Quote

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

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.

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

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?

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.