Claude Lévi-Strauss

Myth is a way of organizing the world and making it intelligible.

The anthropologist must be a patient listener and a careful observer.

The human mind is a universal grammar.

The study of marriage is the study of the fundamental principles of social organization.

The structural method is a way of discovering the underlying patterns of human behavior.

Myth is a form of collective memory that shapes our understanding of the world.

The anthropologist must be a sensitive interpreter of cultural differences.

The human mind is a system of transformations that allows us to make sense of the world.

The study of social structures is the study of the invisible forces that shape human life.

The structural method is a way of revealing the universal principles that underlie all human cultures.

Myth is a way of thinking that is both logical and poetic, rational and imaginative.

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

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

I am the age of the century.

The wise man, the sage, is the man who knows how to live with the contradictions of life.

Our ideas, like the atomic bombs, have the power to destroy everything.

The primary function of writing is to facilitate the enslavement of human beings.

The world begins long before the moment at which we are born; it was here before us, and will continue after us.

I have always felt myself to be a marginal person.

Myth is a voracious genre, which is always ready to assimilate anything that comes its way.