Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWINThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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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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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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We are optimists, until we are not.
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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 willing horse is always overworked.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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