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62 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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)."
"Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter."
"If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter"
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"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?"
"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."
"What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared."
"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."
"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."
"Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test"
"There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing"
"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."
"Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them."
"The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter."
