"Such is the condition of organic nature! whose……" — Erasmus Darwin
"Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!"
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25 Quotes by Erasmus Darwin
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From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young…
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch…
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The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time…
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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of…
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To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata…
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Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize;…
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A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.
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The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them.…
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Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on…
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In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why…
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More Condition Quotes
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
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