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Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Claude Levi-Strauss quotes

French Scientist November 28, 1908 – October 30, 2009

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From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up from the recesses of time: in the little streets of the beaters of silver and gold, for instance, there was a clear, unhurried tinkling, as if a djinn with a thousand arms was absent-mindedly practising on a xylophone. Claude Levi-Strauss
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. Claude Levi-Strauss
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them. Claude Levi-Strauss
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the..."
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,..."
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "The world began without man, and it will complete itself..."
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. Claude Levi-Strauss
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal..."
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers..."
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is..."
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater..."
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss quote: "I am the place in which something has occurred."
I am the place in which something has occurred. Claude Levi-Strauss

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