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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
— Baruch Spinoza
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
— Daniel Berrigan
Insofar as story is concerned, and pleasure is concerned, there are not enough Stephen Kings to go around.
— Stephen King
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
— James S. Coleman
Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.
— David Bosch
The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
— Mircea Eliade
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
— Louis Kronenberger
She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.
— Bennett Madison
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
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
— Anne Enright
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
— James Harvey Robinson
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
— Chris Marker
Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.
— Linda P. Rouse
To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one.
— Vladimir Nabokov
It is good insofar as it is not evil.
— Franz Grillparzer
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
— Denise Levertov
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 act.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
— Benito Mussolini
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous to be who you are!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
— Walter Jon Williams
To Goethe again we owe the profound saying: "the mathematician is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the beauty of the true.
— Oswald Spengler
Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.
— Jonathan R. Miller
Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
— Albert Einstein
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.
— Anton Webern
Insofar as I liked doing things by myself, it was partly for the pleasure of telling her about them afterwards.
— Julian Barnes
Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground.
— Robert Kroese
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science
— Albert Einstein
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.
— Jacques Lacan
Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
— David Levithan
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
— Carine Roitfeld
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
— John Hodgman
You know only insofar as you can measure.
— Lord Kelvin
He wanted to say this was not erotic. But it was erotic, insofar as anything and everything is.
— Anne Rice
Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what "right" was.
— Donald Barthelme
But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-
— Clifford Chase
I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.
— Mercedes McCambridge
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
— Theodor Reik
Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.
— Eduardo Mallea
The government [Hitler promised] will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures. Neither
— William L. Shirer
Love is love insofar as it obliges us to love and, as we respond to its call, becomes ever more truly love.
— Stanislaw Grygiel
We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.
— Venerable Bede
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
The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.
— Rudolf Christoph Eucken
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
— Russell Page
The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.
— Mark Leibovich
Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
— Ambrose Bierce
This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.
— Clara Schumann
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
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
— Arthur Eddington
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
— Susan Sontag