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Conscience Quotes by Charles Darwin
- It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer…
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
- I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense…
- Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,…
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections…
- I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.
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