Latter Quotes

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

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

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.