#natur

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. ↗

— Sallust

#case #conduct #habitual #life #my own

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ↗

— George Santayana

#masterpieces #nature

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. ↗

— George Santayana

#done #duty #his #man #natural

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ↗

— George Santayana

#diseases #him #instincts #less #man

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#dealing #eradicate #fact #faculty #idea

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it. ↗

— Dan Savage

#does #drag #dressed #enough #feel

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#being #former #given #hand #latter

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it. ↗

— Neal Schon

#deal #did #during #first #first time