I am the place in which something has occurred.

- 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

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

- Claude Levi-Strauss

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are ir…

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparabl…

- Claude Levi-Strauss

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

- Claude Levi-Strauss

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

- Claude Levi-Strauss

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

- Claude Levi-Strauss