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.
CHARLES DARWINNothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.
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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
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