There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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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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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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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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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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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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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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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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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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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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