Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss
Levi Strausswas an American Jewish businessman of German origin who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth26 February 1829
CityButtenheim, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.
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Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.
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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.
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
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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.
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You got them, and they were stiff as a board, and you broke them in.
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An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.