Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by 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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#96a38a22

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
~Claude Levi-Strauss


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#906893bc

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
~Claude Levi-Strauss


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#c21689c4

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
~Claude Levi-Strauss


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#01ca9bd1

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
~Claude Levi-Strauss


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#efe15345

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#42efad99

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
~Claude Levi-Strauss


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#6aea2dae

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~Claude Levi-Strauss


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#0a59796c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-levi-strauss-quotes/#88611f0d

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