Edward H. Levi quotes
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“Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.”
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
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“The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.”
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press
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“As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.”
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
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“The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.”
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
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“Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.”
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.182, University of Chicago Press
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“The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.”
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.9, University of Chicago Press
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“The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.”
-- Edward H. LeviSource : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : 'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Source : Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.”
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