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.

Claude Lévi-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 Lévi-Strauss

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Animals are good to think with.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

Claude Lévi-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 Lévi-Strauss

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Claude Lévi-Strauss