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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Charles Darwin

The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
We are optimists, until we are not.
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One Liner Optimism
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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Imagination Increase Interest Knowledge Limitation Man Neighbor Perhaps Possess Subject
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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Advise Clear Ignorance Perceive
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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Animal Collaboration History Human
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Greatness One Liner Power Steady
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Attribution Creature Live Love Man
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Alone Existence Life Relationship

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.

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