Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

• Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man.

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• I can’t help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

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• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

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

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• The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

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

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

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

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• 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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Claude Levi-Strauss (11)

Birth:	28th November, 1908
Death:	30th October, 2009
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Anthropologist

About

Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels, Belgium. He was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. At the Sorbonne in Paris, Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy. He did not pursue his study of law, but agrégated in philosophy in 1931. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world and has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology".

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