Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

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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

Treat, Consolation, Deny, Adult

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

Think, Fact, Show, Claim

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Individual, Any, Nor, Group

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Wise, Give, Answers, Poses

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Never, Conviction, Known, Naive

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

World, Began, Itself, Complete

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

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Person, Answers, Scientist, Gives

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Reason, Internal, Which, Logic

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Mind, Scientific, Does, Provide

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