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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

Charles Darwin

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWIN

Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
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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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
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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Book Cruel Nature Work Writing
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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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Constitution Moral
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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Bee Instinct Science Sufficient Theory Throw
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Evolution God
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 not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
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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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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Beget Confidence Frequent Ignorance Knowledge
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
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
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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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
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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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
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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Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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Greatness One Liner Power Steady
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN

Experiment Fools Love

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