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Top 30 Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes (2025 Update)

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”

1. “The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “I hate travelling and explorers.”

2. “I hate travelling and explorers.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.”

3. “Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “I am the place in which something has occurred.”

4. “I am the place in which something has occurred.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.”

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

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.”

6. “Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.”

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

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.”

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

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.”

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

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.”

12. “The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.”

13. “Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.”

14. “Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing.”

15. “There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “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.”

16. “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 Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.”

17. “With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.”

18. “Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.”

19. “In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Animals are good to think with.”

20. “Animals are good to think with.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.”

22. “The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.”

23. “The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.”

24. “These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.”

25. “Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”

26. “No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.”

27. “Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time...”

28. “How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time...”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.”

29. “Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “I can’t help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.”

30. “I can’t help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for ‘the latest thing’. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.”

31. “Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for ‘the latest thing’. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “All the essentials of humanity’s artistic treasures can be found in New York.”

32. “All the essentials of humanity’s artistic treasures can be found in New York.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss Quote: “Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.”

33. “Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

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