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Latter Quotes

1.
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
Martin Luther

Authors on Latter Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi Brigham Young Martin Heidegger Francis Bacon William Lane Craig Elliott Sober John Keats Mark Twain Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Rene Thom Charles Darwin Hosea Ballou Jacques Derrida T. D. Jakes Ernest Sosa Lionel Shriver Gail Fine Ambrose Bierce Jared Diamond Rex Stout Charles Sanders Peirce Gordon Parks Heber J. Grant Samuel Adams Ezra Taft Benson Immanuel Kant Anita Moorjani Paulo Coelho Jason Diamond Robin Roberts Charlie Ergen James Madison George Eliot
2.
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
Martin Heidegger

3.
I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).
Jacques Derrida

4.
When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.
Anita Moorjani

5.
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.
Gordon Parks

6.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Martin Heidegger

7.
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
Lionel Shriver

8.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Criss Jami

9.
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
Charles Sanders Peirce

10.
For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.
William Lane Craig

11.
Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.
T. D. Jakes

12.
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
Thomas Jefferson

13.
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.
Rene Thom

14.
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
Bertolt Brecht

15.
For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?
Immanuel Kant

16.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

17.
If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
Mahatma Gandhi

18.
You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.
Charlie Ergen

19.
A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
Henri Poincare

20.
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.
Samuel Adams

21.
What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
Brigham Young

22.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
Baruch Spinoza

23.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim

24.
In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
Jared Diamond

25.
For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake,
since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
Rene Descartes

26.
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
Hosea Ballou

27.
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

28.
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.
Charles Darwin

29.
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
Mark Haddon

30.
This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
Ezra Taft Benson

31.
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
Ambrose Bierce

32.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
David Bentley Hart

33.
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
Heber J. Grant

34.
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

35.
There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)
Paulo Coelho

36.
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
Mahatma Gandhi

37.
Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.
John Angell James

38.
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Francis Bacon

39.
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.
John Keats

40.
The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.
Caroline Knapp

41.
There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.
Vincent de Paul

42.
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Barbara Mertz

43.
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
Arthur Nersesian

44.
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.
Gail Fine

45.
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
Elliott Sober

46.
There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
William James

47.
There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.
Jason Diamond

48.
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
Tony Horwitz

49.
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
George Eliot

50.
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
Jean de la Bruyere