What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
CHARLES DARWINWe will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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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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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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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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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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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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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