We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are ‘good to eat’ but because they are ‘good to think.’ – Levi Strauss
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. – Levi Strauss
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. – Levi Strauss
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. – Levi Strauss
