To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Interpretation
The quote warns against relying solely on established precedents in judicial decision-making, suggesting it limits critical thinking.
Irving Kaufman highlights the danger of judges sticking strictly to precedents and narrow interpretations when making decisions. He argues that such an approach can lead to a stagnant judicial mindset, which fails to consider the broader implications and justice of each case. This reliance on past rulings can ultimately diminish the quality of legal reasoning and the effectiveness of the judiciary in addressing contemporary issues.
In practice
During a legal seminar discussing the importance of adaptability in law.
The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.
It never got weird enough for me.
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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