Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss: Just as the...

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...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: The scientific mind...

Claude Levi-Strauss: The scientific mind...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

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Claude Levi-Strauss: The world began...

Claude Levi-Strauss: The world began...

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

Source: Tristes...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: The musical emotion...

Claude Levi-Strauss: The musical emotion...

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: If the composer...

Claude Levi-Strauss: If the composer...

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: Our system is...

Claude Levi-Strauss: 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...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: I therefore claim...

Claude Levi-Strauss: 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...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: No contact with...

Claude Levi-Strauss: 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...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: Enthusiastic partisans of...

Claude Levi-Strauss: Enthusiastic partisans of...

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize. . . the immense riches...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: The anthropologist respects...

Claude Levi-Strauss: The anthropologist respects...

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study...

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