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Edward Levi Quotes
Page 1 of 1Edward Levi
June 26, 1911 - March 7, 2000
Nationality: American
Category: Public Servant
Subcategory: American Publicservant
|  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. | | 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. | | Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. | | 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. | | 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. | | The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason. | | 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. |
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