Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

"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."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Men, Being, Fact, Myths)

"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Conviction, Poverty)

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Answers, Man, Questions, Right)

"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Language, Logic, Man, Nothing, Reason)

"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Absurdity, Order, Right)

"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Answers, Mind, Questions, Right)

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Answers, Questions, Right)

"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
(Related: Man, Will, World)