Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes on Truth
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 truth, 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 scientist is not a person who gives the right answers; he is one who asks the right questions.”
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“Our science arrived at maturity the day that Western man began to see that he would never understand himself as long as there was a single race or people on the surface of the earth that he treated as an object. Only then could anthropology declare itself in its true colours: as an enterprise reviewing and atoning for the Renaissance, in order to spread humanism to all humanity.”
The Scope of Anthropology (1960)