Claude Lévi-Strauss

Art and science are two sides of the same coin of human creativity.

The world began without man and it will end without him.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers but one who asks the right questions.

The primary function of the mythical thought is to ensure that the universe has meaning.

The savage mind is logical in the same sense and the same fashion as ours, though its logic is applied to different things.

The anthropologist is not a doctor who prescribes remedies, but a diagnostician who tries to understand the structure of the illness.

The ultimate goal of the human sciences is not to constitute man, but to dissolve him.

Order is a response to the chaos of the world.

The structural method is not a method of discovery, but a method of verification.

Myth is the language of the unconscious.

The study of kinship systems is the study of the most fundamental form of social organization.

The human mind is structured like a language.

Culture is not a natural phenomenon, but a system of signs.

The unconscious is always structured.

The raw and the cooked are not just culinary terms, but fundamental categories of human thought.

The exchange of women is the most fundamental form of social exchange.

The structural approach allows us to see the underlying patterns in seemingly disparate phenomena.

Every culture is a system of communication.

The human mind is a myth-making machine.

The concept of 'primitive' is a Western construct.