There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWINAn agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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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.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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