Latter Quotes

767 Latter quotes by 537 unique authors

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational… — Georg Cantor
In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago… — Benjamin Tucker
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency,… — George Bernard Shaw
It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In… — Leo Strauss
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise… — Kim Thayil
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This… — Andrew Johnson
Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked… — Mati Klarwein
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best. — Mark Twain
But what is now encompassed by the one word (â€œschoolâ€) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely… — Jonathan Kozol
The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view which… — Paul Ormerod
What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus,… — Gordon Clark
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation… — Harriet Martineau
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… — David Bentley Hart
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. — Denis Diderot
The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. — Carl Jung
Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to… — Anna Kingsford
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to… — Isaac D'Israeli
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. — Mignon McLaughlin
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle

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