Claude LeviStrauss Famous Quotes



"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."

"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."


Claude LeviStrauss Quotations






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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
Albert Camus

"Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents."
Bob Ross

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
Charles Robert Darwin

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
Cynthia Nelms

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.
David McCord

"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it."
Kurt Lewin

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
Sir Frederick G Banting

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne

"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."
Kaleel Jamison