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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
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chance Freedom Matter Mind One Liner
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
CHARLES DARWIN

Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
CHARLES DARWIN

Concern Discover Fear Hope Permit Reason Truth
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Follow Inspirational Lead Men
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
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
CHARLES DARWIN

Length Man Noble Quality
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWIN

Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
CHARLES DARWIN

Development Genius Habit Mankind People Thinking
We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN

One Liner Optimism
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

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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