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
thinking numbers criticism
I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
tired home thinking
[ Serialism ] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination....
thinking use would-be
I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.
thinking animal dog-lover
Animals are good to think with.
broke stiff
You got them, and they were stiff as a board, and you broke them in.
american-businessman chosen natural species
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
american-businessman composer delicious experience falling musical stable thrust torn
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.
ask knows
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
facts mystery humans
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
confused teaching greatness
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
past ideas race
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
years enhancement towns
In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.
loss effectiveness savages
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.
shining police purpose
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.