Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss

• 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.
• 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.
• I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
• The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
• Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
• 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.
• The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
• The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.