Levi Strauss Quotes
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Gifts make slaves.
— Levi-Strauss
I am the place in which something has occurred.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
— Levi-Strauss
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
— 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
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
— 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
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
I hate travelling and explorers
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Animals are good to think with.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
— Claude Levi-Strauss