The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — 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… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
[Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use. — 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
![“[Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their…” quote by Claude Levi-Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b80/claude-levi-strauss-8995_captains_serialism-is-like-a-sailless-ship-driven_1486148.jpg)
