Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 28, 1908 - October 30, 2009

Topics

ManLanguageLogicNothingHuman

I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!

Jessica Parker Kennedy

LoveHateHealthyWantEatNose

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LifeWorkNatureLoveBeautifulMen

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

Matthew Lillard

MeThoughtHelpBadMoviesRent

It's very rewarding to know that people respect what you do.

Matthew Ramsey

RespectPeopleYouKnowVery

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

Jean-Claude Juncker

DividedTakeGiveUnionWhoThose

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

OrganizationLanguageSpeechOrgans

There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.

Steve Chen

YouWaterfallContentOutMissing

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mary McCarthy

PoliticsMilitaryEthicalRetreat

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Mikhail Gorbachev

FightThinkPoliticalDoneTerrorism

I've been living a lie all my life.

Michael Reagan

LifeLieMy LifeLivingBeen

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Josiah Strong

GreatIdeasSmallDevelopmentTwo

I like to move around a lot - I'm a big runner, and I often get on a bike and ride from meeting to meeting.

Christina Tosi

RideBikeMeetingBigMoveGet

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