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.
CHARLES DARWINThe loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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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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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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