Claude Levi-Strauss Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Claude Levi-Strauss

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

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

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

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

Claude Levi-Strauss