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Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

— Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques (1955)

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One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

Tristes Tropiques (1955)

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Tristes Tropiques (1955)

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

Mythologiques I: Le cru et le cuit (1964)

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

Tristes Tropiques (1955)

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

The Raw and the Cooked : Introduction to a Science of Mythology (1975)

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