I sometimes think that we worry ourselves overmuch about the enduring consequences of our errors. They may work a little confusion for a time. In the… - Benjamin N. Cardozo

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I sometimes think that we worry ourselves overmuch about the enduring consequences of our errors. They may work a little confusion for a time. In the end, they will be modified or corrected or their teachings ignored. The future takes care of such things. In the endless process of testing and retesting, there is a constant rejection of the dross, and a constant retention of whatever is pure and sound and fine.

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About Benjamin N. Cardozo

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (24 May 1870 – 9 July 1938) was a long-time Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York, where his opinions included many declarations that would become famous in legal circles; he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1932.

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Ο δικαστής, ακόμη και όταν είναι ελεύθερος, δεν είναι τελείως ελεύθερος. Δεν μπορεί να καινοτομεί όπως και όταν του αρέσει. Δεν είναι ένας περιπλανώμενος ιππότης που αναζητεί το δικό του ιδανικό της ομορφιάς και της καλοσύνης. Είναι υποχρεωμένος να αντλεί την έμπνευσή του μέσα απο τις καθιερωμένες αρχές. Δεν πρέπει να ενδίδει σε σπασμωδικά συναισθήματα, σε μια αόριστη διάθεση ευσπλαχνίας. Είναι υποχρεωμένος να ασκεί μια διακριτική εξουσία, προσδιορισμένη από την παράδοση, μεθοδευμένη από την αναλογία, πειθαρχημένη από το σύστημα και υποκείμενη στην πρωταρχική ανάγκη της τάξης στην κοινωνική ζωή

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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. All their lives, forces which they do not recognize and cannot name, have been tugging at them — inherited instincts, traditional beliefs, acquired convictions; and the resultant is an outlook on life, a conception of social needs. … In this mental background every problem finds it setting. We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

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