The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep. — 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
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life — 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
He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — 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
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
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without… — 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
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love. — 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
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
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