The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. – Claude Levi-Strauss
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. – 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. – Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. – Claude Levi-Strauss
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. – Claude Levi-Strauss
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. – Claude Levi-Strauss
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. – Claude Levi-Strauss