“The Tantrik approach to self-realization is different from the Vedic approach. The former looks upon the Goddess as Shakti, energy, to be experienced while the latter looks upon the Goddess as Maya, delusion, to be transcended. The former is more sensory, the latter less so.”

“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.”

Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician

“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

“The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.”

Anders Chydenius book The National Gain

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

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

“And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.”

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist

“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

“Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.”

John Angell James (1785–1859) British abolitionist