My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
CHARLES DARWINI am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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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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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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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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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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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 mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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