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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 Martin Heidegger Brigham Young Ambrose Bierce Jared Diamond Gail Fine Charles Sanders Peirce Gordon Parks Rex Stout Ezra Taft Benson Heber J. Grant Samuel Adams Anita Moorjani Paulo Coelho Jason Diamond Immanuel Kant Charlie Ergen James Madison Robin Roberts Baruch Spinoza Martin Luther George Eliot Vincent de Paul Arthur Nersesian Plutarch Jean de la Bruyere Nathaniel Hawthorne Criss Jami Mark Haddon Rene Descartes Caroline Knapp Mehmet Murat Ildan Helmut Schmid
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.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Martin Heidegger

6.
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.
Gordon Parks

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

13.
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
Thomas Jefferson

14.
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

15.
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

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.
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

25.
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

26.
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
Mark Haddon

27.
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

28.
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

29.
In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
Jared Diamond

30.
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
Hosea Ballou

31.
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

32.
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

33.
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

34.
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
Mahatma Gandhi

35.
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

36.
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

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.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
Tony Horwitz

44.
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
George Eliot

45.
If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
Ernest Sosa

46.
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
Jean de la Bruyere

47.
Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test
Brigham Young

48.
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
Helmut Schmid

49.
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.
Harriet Martineau

50.
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.
Mahatma Gandhi