There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
Interpretation
Studying law enhances creativity and imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the study of the law is not merely a pursuit of legal knowledge but a profound exercise for the imagination. Engaging with legal concepts, interpretations, and arguments stimulates creative thinking, allowing individuals to envision possibilities and develop innovative ideas in various aspects of life.
In practice
This quote could be used during a seminar on the importance of legal education.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
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