The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWINBesides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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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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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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