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Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

“I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.”

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Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss was a French anthropologist known for his structuralist theories and his analyses of myths, kinship, and human culture. His work has had a profound impact on post-structuralism and semiotics. more

“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.”

Mean Character Facts Language Music Messages Music Is Understood Creator Contradictory

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.”

People Men World Littles Has Beens Known This World He Man Conscious Men And Women Saint Enjoyment Little Things

Book:Roman Fountain

Source: Roman Fountain

“It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats”

People Study Psychology Modern Easier Behavior Commitment Fewer Rats Modern Psychology

Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.”