The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.” — Claude Lévi-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
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
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
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
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
“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
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share
“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
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
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
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share
All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share
