"Our students wanted to know everything: but only……" — 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 the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them."
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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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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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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 important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
— Irving Berlin
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