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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.

Charles Darwin

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absorb Evil Man Myself Subject
Nothing 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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Freedom Men Mind Promotion Science Thinking
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attack Fame Love Truth
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cause Greatness Insitution Misery Nature Poor Poverty Sin
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Consideration Equality
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Giving Goodness Reason Religion Volume
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWIN

Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN

One Liner Optimism
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
CHARLES DARWIN

Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround

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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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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