"There is one fact that can be established.……" — Claude Levi-Strauss
"There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing"
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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28 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…
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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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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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