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Life Quotes by Charles Darwin
- I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me…
- It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
- Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except…
- How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is…
- As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
- The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally…
- There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
- My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
- Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual…
- A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and…
- As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it…
- It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad,…
- Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of…
- From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in…
- As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so…
- Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life
- Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
- The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended…
- The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone…
- How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated…
- A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
- Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than…
- If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle