Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
CHARLES DARWINA moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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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 would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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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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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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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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