The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
CHARLES DARWINIf 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.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
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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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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.
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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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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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