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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.

Charles Darwin

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

Chance Freedom Matter Mind One Liner
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attribution Creature Live Love Man
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
CHARLES DARWIN

Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
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 love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN

Experiment Fools Love
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
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chief Plant Travel View
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe

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