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Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
«The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.»
«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.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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belonging, class A, Continent, dweller, dwellers, European, European civilization, European country, for each one, in the first place, New class, New World, One of Us, played out, signifies
«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.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
«The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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Mind,
Science,
Solution
| Keywords:
The Right Questions
«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.»
«Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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attributes, come up, comparable, contradictory, disciplines, formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, immense, intelligible, musical, untranslatable
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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castes, caste system, concomitant, concomitants, empires, enlightenment, exploitation, favored, grading, integration, large numbers, phenomenon, political system, The Creation
«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.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adds, anticipate, anticipates, composer, Delicious, divining, exercises, gymnastic, in point of fact, listener, more or less, musical, occurs, sensation, skillful, stable, The Listener, The Void, thrust, torn, void, withholds