Top 40 Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

#1. Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

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#2. The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.

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#3. The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

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#4. I am the place in which something has occurred.

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#5. Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

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#6. There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

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#7. 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.

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#8. All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

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#9. I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

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#10. The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

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#11. There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

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#12. With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

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

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#14. The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

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#15. In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.

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#16. I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

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#17. These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

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#18. Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize ... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

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#19. No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

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#20. [Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

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#21. The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

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#22. Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

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#23. While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

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#24. Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

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#25. So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but still should exist, if we were to have any hope of avoiding the overwhelming conclusion that the history of the past twenty thousand years is irrevocable.

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#26. How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time ...

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#27. I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

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#28. Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

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#29. The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

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#30. Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

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#31. Animals are good to think with.

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#32. Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

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#33. I hate travelling and explorers

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#34. I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.

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#35. Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

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#36. 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.

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#37. 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.

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#38. Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

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#39. The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

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#40. The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.

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