Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes

Who was Claude Lévi-Strauss?

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgium-born French anthropologist and ethnologist.

Born November 28, 1908
Died October 30, 2009
Aged 100 years old

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Best Quotes by Claude Lévi-Strauss

“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.”

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

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

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“Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire.”


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