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
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.
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.
thinking animal dog-lover
Animals are good to think with.
men groups individual
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.
distance moving journey
Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
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.
rivers newton found
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
men atheism world
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
I am the place in which something has occurred.
what-matters century collecting
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
science finals forget
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
men logic language
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.