The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINThe moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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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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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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