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Lucien Levy-Bruhl Quotes on Knowledge

Lucien Levy-Bruhl was a French philosopher and ethnologist and one of the most influential and most controversial of the early twentieth-century students of comparative thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:

    “There is more than one way for the human mind to grasp the world.”

  • Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:

    “What we call logic is one form of thought among many.”

  • Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:

    “Mystical participation precedes the law of non-contradiction in the history of mind.”

  • Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:

    “Ethnology corrects the parochialism of philosophy.”

  • Attributed to Lucien Levy-Bruhl:

    “I have learned to mistrust my earlier confident contrasts.”