Skip to content

Quotes from Totemism — Claude Lévi-Strauss

1908–2009 Belgium

← All quotes by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1 quote

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good to think." [Les espèces sont choisies non commes bonnes à manger, mais comme bonnes à penser.]

Totemism (1962)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Claude Lévi-Strauss (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.