Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes on Mind
Claude Levi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and philosopher and the founder of structural anthropology. This page collects quotes attributed to Claude Levi-Strauss on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Claude Levi-Strauss:
“I am the place in which something has occurred.”
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Attributed to Claude Levi-Strauss:
“Myths get thought in man unbeknownst to him.”
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Attributed to Claude Levi-Strauss:
“The savage mind totalizes; it thinks the whole through the parts.”
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“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”
The Raw and the Cooked : Introduction to a Science of Mythology (1975) Vol. I, [ Le Cru et le Cuit , as translated by Doreen and John Weightman], p. 7 -
“The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.”
Tristes Tropiques(1955) | Chapter 23 : The Living and the Dead, p. 246