"Language is a form of human reason, which……" — Claude Levi-Strauss
"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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28 Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss has 28 quotes on this site.
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man…
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
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Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas…
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Animals are good to think with.
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Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a…
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I hate travelling and explorers
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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
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For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above…
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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a…
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less…
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode…
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in…
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
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