If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWINThus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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