Quotes by "Claude Levi-Strauss"

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

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

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.