The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

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.

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.

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

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.