The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for… — 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
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — 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 moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
-The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.” — 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
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared… — 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
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — 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 Image
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 Image
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image