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
began french-scientist
The world began without man, and it will end without him.
wise wisdom men
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
animal poison density
There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
what-matters century collecting
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
rivers newton found
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
science finals forget
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
intellectual poverty conviction
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
hands brain cameras
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
philosophical civilization space
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.
juice burning bitter
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
fashion past knowing-nothing
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.
knowledge doubt contention
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
writing class cities
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
morning block ice
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.