Latter Quotes

767 Latter quotes by 537 unique authors

The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties… — Lysander Spooner
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he… — Georg Simmel
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society… — Kenzaburo Oe
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.… — Martin Luther
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth… — Thomas Jefferson
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the… — Ambrose Bierce
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root… — Mao Zedong
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more… — Reinhold Niebuhr
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in… — Calamity Jane
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations… — Oliver Heaviside
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was… — Lisa Lutz
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
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited… — Vincent de Paul
Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.… — Vincent de Paul
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method… — Paul Dirac
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of… — Richard Whately
The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try. We must try to believe. Try to learn of God: read the scriptures; study… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or… — Douglas Rushkoff
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social… — William Graham Sumner
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. — Democritus

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