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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Other Quotes by "Claude Levi-Strauss"

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Tags: music
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Tags: right, questions, who, person
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Tags: ask, right, questions, mind
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Tags: right, questions, wise-man, man, wise
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Tags: logic, nothing, language, man
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