Benjamin N Cardozo - Collected Quotes

"[…] law, like other branches of social science, must be satisfied to test the validity of its conclusions by the logic of probabilities rather than the logic of certainty." (Benjamin N Cardozo, "The Growth of the Law", 1924)

"Methods, when classified and separated, acquire their true bearing and perspective as a means to an end, not as ends in themselves." (Benjamin N Cardozo, "The Growth of the Law", 1924)

"The theorist has a hard time to make his way in an ungrateful world. He is supposed to be indifferent to realities; yet his life is spent in the exposure of realities, which, till illuminated by his searchlight, were hidden and unknown." (Benjamin N Cardozo, "The Growth of the Law", 1924)

"Where the line is to be drawn the important and the trivial cannot be settled by a formula." (Benjamin N Cardozo, 1921)

"Often a liberal antidote of experience supplies a sovereign cure for a paralyzing abstraction built upon a theory." (Benjamin N Cardozo, "The Paradoxes of Legal Science", 1928)

"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more." (Benjamin N Cardozo, "The Game of the Law", 1931)