Learned Hand Quote

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.


"A Fanfare for Prometheus" (29 January 1955).


We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose...

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose...

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose...

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose...