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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 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

French Scientist

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Music

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Writers And Writing

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 Quotes

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

French Scientist

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

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

Claude Levi-Strauss

French Scientist

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

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

Claude Levi-Strauss

French Scientist

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

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

Claude Levi-Strauss

French Scientist

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice. - Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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