The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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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 never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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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.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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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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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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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 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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