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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 7 total Claude Levi-strauss quotes in our collection. Claude Levi-strauss is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Claude Levi strauss

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

Claude Levi strauss