Claude Lévi-Strauss

The beauty of the world lies in its imperfections.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The human mind is a vast and mysterious universe.

The search for meaning is the most fundamental human endeavor.

The greatest illusion is that we are separate from the world.

The human spirit is indomitable.

To understand is to perceive the structure of things.

The savage mind totalizes.

The human mind is a set of constraints that allow for infinite possibilities.

The ultimate goal of anthropology is to dissolve man.

There is no meaning outside of structure.

The raw and the cooked are not just culinary categories, but conceptual ones.

Myth is a machine for the suppression of time.

The task of the anthropologist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

The world is a text that needs to be deciphered.

The human condition is characterized by a fundamental ambiguity.

The beauty of a myth lies in its ability to reconcile opposites.

Life is a continuous process of becoming.

The unconscious is the true subject of anthropology.

The meaning of a symbol is its place in a system of symbols.