Internal Logic Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss

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• Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not…
• Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
• Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
• The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
• Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a…
• Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
• Animals are good to think with.
• Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable…
• I hate travelling and explorers
• Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
• For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one…
• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and…

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