Edward H. Levi famous quotes

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. Levi

#Art #Law #Definitions

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. Levi

#Art #College #Giving

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. Levi

#Wisdom #Memories #Passion

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
-- Edward H. Levi

#Commitment #Way #Reason

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
-- Edward H. Levi

#Men #Custodians #Culture

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. Levi

#Frustration #Intellectual #Events

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. Levi

#Unity #Mind #Alive

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it