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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
Explore more quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact."
"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation."
"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
"Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe."
"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
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