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 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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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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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.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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