I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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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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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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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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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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 most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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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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