A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind. … Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.


Other writings - The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928)

Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes

A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind....

A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind....

A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind....

A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind....