"Humanity is confined to the borders of the tribe, the linguistic group, or even, in some instances, to the village ...."

"Our science arrived at maturity the day that Western man began to see that he would never understand himself as long …"

"We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good…"

"These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowl…"

"Never better than after the last four centuries of his history could a Western man understand that, while assuming th…"

"Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a…"

"Marxist, communist and totalitarian ideology is only a ruse of history."

"The idea behind structuralism is that there are things we may not know but we can learn how they are related to each …"

"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."

"The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the aban…"