Quotes by Levi-Strauss, Claude

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a soc >>

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense m >>

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failin >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not so >>

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils somet >>

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. >>

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Levi-Strauss, Claude