“If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.” IfsMadeTwoRealSeemsEarthScienceNaturalPracticeTakenExampleDependsOffersOrdinaryAdvantageAreasDistanceDefinitionsCirclesLengthQuantityUnitsMeasurementLinearUsagePendulums Author:Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.” IfsHumansChildrenMatterFactsBodyParentNaturalAttitudeWonderSeeingShameOur ChildrenDevelopingYour ChildrenBreastsLengthUnusualDisgustingHuman BodyMatter Of FactNuditySecretiveButtocksBeing NaturalNudists Author:Lee Salk
“Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.” MenLongNaturalLibertyAtheismLong TimeSlaveryLaysTerrorPositive AtheismTyrannyVainFancyLengthGreecePhantoms Author:Lucretius
“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.” MenHumansIdeasSelfNaturalInstitutionsDestroyedSubstanceWildernessLengthTransformedSurroundingsUtopiaStarksThesisAdjustingImplied Book:The Great Transformation Source: The Great Transformation
“From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.” FormLanguageNaturalWrittenElementsInfiniteSentencesLengthFiniteLinguistics Book:Syntactic Structures Source: Syntactic Structures
“The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.” KnowsMenTryingChildrenIdeasStatesLostNaturalFreedomEnemyBreakMankindPrejudiceProofChainsLengthOddsMen WomenControversialTry AgainAgainst All Odds Author:John Quincy Adams