“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.” HumansDoeValuesSpaceStudySpecialRangeAccordHuman SocietyAnthropologistsComplementary Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.” HumansFactsMysteryCreatorSupremeHuman Knowledge Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.” IfsWorldHumansI CanTodayHuman BeingsAnimalExistenceClearPlantSpeciesPoisonFinishingDisappearanceDensity Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.” HumansHandsBrainCamerasRemainsDevicesSophisticationCoarseHuman Hands Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.” KnowsMenHumansReasonFormLanguageLogicInternalsHuman ReasonHuman Language Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.” HumansMatterHuman BeingsEconomyHappenedCenturyObjectsEvidenceWhat MattersCollecting Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“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.” WorldFirstsHumansHeartCountryEarthResponsibilityClassCrimeAdventureBearsCivilizationDiscoveryDestructionBelongingOur WorldNew WorldContinentsBeing HumanDwellers Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.” HumansStillsIdeasPastRaceProgressFailingDangerAchievementRichesHuman RaceAccomplishedImmenseEnthusiasticPartisansDevalue Author: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.” WritingHumansSeemsPoliticalIndividualHuman BeingsNumbersCitiesClassCreationEnlightenmentEmpiresPhenomenonExploitationIntegrationPolitical SystemsLarge NumbersCastes Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
