Insofar Quotes

134 Insofar quotes by 117 unique authors

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. — Walter Jon Williams
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. — Pierre Bourdieu
Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined… — Alice Miller
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every… — Soren Kierkegaard
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they… — A. H. Almaas
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional… — Gustav Heinemann
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. — Baruch Spinoza
Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over… — Luce Irigaray
There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal… — Erwin Schrodinger
The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and… — Phillip Lopate
Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their place… — Ivan Illich
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the… — Ken Wilber
Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God. — David Bosch
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. — Evelyn Underhill
Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar… — Gary L. Francione
It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony. ... — Nathan Eldon Tanner
The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the uncertainty in the… — Kenneth Arrow
Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their… — Kenny Smith
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. — James S. Coleman
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have… — Leslie Fiedler
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and… — Madeleine Vionnet
My teaching influences who you are and who you become, I said, because insofar as I persuade you to change what you know, I can't… — Marshall Gregory
I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise… — Malcolm Muggeridge
At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar… — Geoffrey Hodson

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