Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects… — Charles Darwin Copy Share
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