The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Topics: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Essential Questions, Right Questions

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Topics: Men, Logic, Language, Human Language
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
source: - "Homo Sapiens review - extraordinary vision of a post-human world" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2016.
Animals are good to think with.
source: - "Totemism". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962.
Topics: Writing, Numbers, Class, Castes, Political Systems
Topics: Space, Special, Doe, Complementary, Anthropologists
source: - Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin
Topics: Order, Achievement, World, Prodigious
Topics: Past, Reality, Years, Stages Of Development, Insensitive
source: - Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin
Topics: Thinking, Numbers, Criticism, Irrational Beliefs
Topics: Years, Enhancement, Towns, Degeneration
source: - Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.145, Penguin
Topics: Philosophical, Civilization, Space
source: - Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.232, Penguin
Topics: Shining, Police, Purpose, Unconcerned
Topics: Morning, Block, Ice, Indian Tribes, Herring
Topics: Loss, Effectiveness, Cost, Pierce
Topics: Children, Order, Punishment, Culprit, Crime And Punishment
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Topics: Science, Technology, Giving, Good Science, Right Answers
source: - Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.390, Penguin
Topics: Men, Groups, Individual
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Topics: Knowledge, Doubt, Contention
source: - Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin
Topics: Flower, Men, Civilization, Monoculture, Delicate Flower
Topics: What Matters, Collecting, Century
Topics: Yesterday, Historical, Development, Yesterday Is History
Topics: Country, Responsibility, Heart
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Topics: Intellectual, Poverty, Conviction, Naive
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
Topics: Reality, Understanding, Reducing
source: - "Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss Remembered". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.
Topics: Country, People, Firsts, Cultural Relativism, Underdeveloped Countries
Topics: Hands, Brain, Cameras, Human Hands
Topics: Marco Polo, Polo, Marcos
Topics: Seize The Moment