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Claude Levi-Strauss
Just as the...
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone...
The scientific mind...
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
The world began...
The world began without man, and it will end without him.
Source: Tristes...
The musical emotion...
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less...
If the composer...
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been...
Our system is...
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish...
I therefore claim...
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware...
No contact with...
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in...
Enthusiastic partisans of...
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize. . . the immense riches...
The anthropologist respects...
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study...