Claude Lévi-Strauss - Alone Quotes

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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.

Claude Lévi-Strauss