Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 4 : The Quest for Power, p. 43
Context: While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Being
Claude Lévi-Strauss was French anthropologist and ethnologist. Explore interesting quotes on being.Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 16 : Markets p. 149
Mythologiques I: Le cru et le cuit (1964)
"La leçon de sagesse des vaches folles" [The wise lesson of mad cows], in Études rurales (2001); as quoted in Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals, trans. Sherab Chödzin Kohn, Shambhala Publications, 2016, p. 68 https://books.google.it/books?id=bTLuDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68
Source: Myth and Meaning (1978), Chapter 1 : The Meeting of Myth and Science
The Raw and the Cooked : Introduction to a Science of Mythology (1975) Vol. I, [Le Cru et le Cuit, as translated by Doreen and John Weightman], p. 113
Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 16 : Markets p. 149
Source: Myth and Meaning (1978), Chapter 2 : ‘Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind
Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 38 : A Little Glass of Rum, pp.385-386