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Men Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the…
- 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 soil rich in…
- Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
- Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,…
- The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
- I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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