Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right...

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate...

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate...

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man...

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man...

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

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

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society...

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society...

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who...

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right...

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate...

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate...

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.