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

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

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

- Edward H. Levi

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, o…

- Edward H. Levi

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which ca…

- Edward H. Levi

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 oppositi…

- Edward H. Levi

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

- Edward H. Levi