Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
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The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.Claude Levi Strauss
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. . . .
Claude Levi Strauss
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize. . . the immense riches accumulated by the human race. . . . By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
Claude Levi Strauss
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
Claude Levi Strauss
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .
Claude Levi Strauss
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