An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWINBesides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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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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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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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.
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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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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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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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