#latter

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #creation #development #does #final

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#believe #better #cannot #capital #country

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#active #eighty #feet #flesh #former

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#based #between #both #church #convictions

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. ↗

— Pierre Nicole

#failings #hide #latter #most #others

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Jack Paar

#form #immigration #sincerest #sincerest form

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. ↗

— Jean Paul

#flatter #people #praise #simpler #than

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#error #former #latter #produce #small

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#being #civil #civil war #crusade #economic

There are so many people out there who would love for you to act in a manner that flatters and suits them the best, instead of loving you for who you really are. ↗

— POB Bismark

#change #flattery #real #unpretentious #change