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9 quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss

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

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

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

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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... →

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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.

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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.

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

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

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