Affection Quote by Charles Darwin

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,…

— Charles Darwin

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

— Charles Darwin

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle…

— Charles Darwin

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

— Charles Darwin

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to…

— Charles Darwin

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to…

— Jane Austen

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or…

— Jane Austen

“There is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts, any more than there is between the heart and the lungs: the one…

— Nick Riggle

Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This sense, as…

— Charles Darwin

Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . .…

— Charles Darwin

“like the social instincts of chimps, those of humans were adapted only for small intimate groups. When the group grew too large, its social…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral…

— Charles Darwin