"The human sciences are only sciences by way of a self-flattering imposture. They run into an..."

“The human sciences are only sciences by way of a self-flattering imposture. They run into an insurmountable limit, because the realities they aspire to understand are of the same order of complexity as the intellectual means they deploy. Therefore they are incapable of mastering their object, and always will be.”

- Claude Lévi-Strauss (via inthenoosphere)