[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 Copy Share Image
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“For mile after mile the same melodic phrase rose up in my memory. I simply couldn’t get free of it. Each time it had… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
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