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Human Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
- Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
- Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European…
- 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…
- The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of…
- 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…
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