Quotes by Levi-Strauss, Claude

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both >>

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each momen >>

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths o >>

Quotations about Language

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. >>

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own plea >>

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the presen >>

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

Levi-Strauss, Claude