I may be subjected to the criticism of being called ‘scientistic’ or a kind of blind believer in science who holds that science is able to solve abso… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

When the European looks down on this land, divided into minute lots and cultivated to the last acre, he experiences an initial feeling of familiarity. But the way the colours shade into each other, the irregular outlines of the fields and the rice-swamps which are constantly rearranged in different patterns, the blurred edges which look as if they had been roughly stitched together, all this is part of the same tapestry, but — compared to the clearly defined forms and colours of a European landscape — it is like a tapestry with the wrong side showing.

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.