The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINI have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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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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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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