The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWINI have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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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 highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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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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The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
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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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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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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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