Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
タグ: logic, nothing, language, man

"Claude Levi-Strauss"の他の名言

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
タグ: music
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
タグ: right, questions, who, person
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
タグ: ask, right, questions, mind
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
タグ: right, questions, wise-man, man, wise
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.
タグ: right, height, child, treat
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