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The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.

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Our feeling of intellectual security is so deeply anchored in us that we even do not see how it could be shaken.

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Nature around us is order and reason, exactly as is the human mind. Our everyday activity implies a perfect confidence in the universality of the laws of nature.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

Born: April 10, 1857
Died: March 13, 1939 (aged 81)
Bio: Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was a French scholar trained in philosophy, who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field of study involved primitive mentality.
Known for:
  1. How natives think (1926)
  2. Primitive Mentality (1923)
  3. The 'soul' of the primitive (1928)
  4. Primitives and the supernatural (1935)
  5. Ethics and moral science

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