Latter Quotes - Page 36

• Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Aids, Found

  Marcel Proust (1932). “Remembrance of Things Past”, New York : Random House

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• Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, Paris, London

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

  Frans de Waal

  Mean, Later In Life, Empathy

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• Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them."

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Father, Men

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• In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Politics, Republican

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.106, Library of Alexandria

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• While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Energy, Molecules

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• Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Religion, Fundamentals

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics" by William Lane Craig, Revised ed., Wheaton, IL: Crossway, (p. 36), 1994.

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• Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Hate, Safety, Ambitious

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• To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of following their teaching, of submitting with docility to their judgment, and of allowing themselves to be governed, corrected, and guided by them in the way of salvation. Thus, it is an absolute necessity for the simple faithful to submit in mind and heart to their own pastors, and for the latter to submit with them to the Head and Supreme Pastor.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Teaching, Heart, Simple

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• The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

  Leslie White

  Independent, Technology, Variables

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• Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

  Geoff Dyer

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

  Heber J. Grant

  Daughter, Son, Saint

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• 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

  Saint, Earth, Saved

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• The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Powerful, Gold, And Love

  "The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

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• There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Opportunity, Faithful, Saint

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• I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Men, Church

  "History of the Church", 6:408, May 26, 1844.

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• Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Party, Elements, Empires

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• Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. The latter texts simply enjoy the considerable advantage of having made their public debut in the shadowy recesses of the ancient past, and are thus much harder to refute.

  Jon Krakauer

  Book, Past, Mind

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Party, Two

  Ulysses S. Grant, John Y. Simon (1969). “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: April to September, 1861”, p.7, SIU Press

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• 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

  Science, Belief, Distinction

  Charles Darwin (1988). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 16: The Origin of Species, 1876”, p.443, NYU Press

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• We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Differences, Making A Difference

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, Thinking, Leader

  "The Last of the Masters". Book by Philip K. Dick, p. 337, 1954.

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• Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

  Aaron Levie

  Jobs, Way, Sometimes

  Twitter post from May 25, 2013

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• Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

  George Lois

  Jobs, People, Good Job

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• ...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

  George B. Ward

  Photography, Grace, Technique

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