Attributes Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

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

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

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

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

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

“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

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“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

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

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