“There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.”

“The landscape problem and the problem of background independence are closely linked. The latter is the only route the former has to experimental confirmation.”

Lee Smolin (1955) American cosmologist

“The collapse of European communist regimes will not entail disillusionment with the substance of socialism under other names until the latter is identified and linked to the catastrophic experience of the former. There is no reason to believe that this has occurred.”

Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic

“In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

“Plan out your work Then work out your plan. The former without the latter is a sheer waste. The latter without the former is mere unproductive confusion.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

“While there are two ways of contending, one by discussion, the other by force, the former belonging properly to man, the latter to beasts, recourse must be had to the latter if there be no opportunity for employing the former.”
Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim, cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum, confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“Creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the former gives rise to the latter.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

“The dialogical character of education as the practice of freedom does not begin when the teacher-student meets with the students-teachers in pedagogical situation, but rather when the former first asks herself or himself what she or he will dialogue with the latter about.”

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher