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I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Animals, whom we have made our slaves,
we do not like to consider our equal.
- Charles Darwin
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed
in any subject as I am in mine.
- Charles Darwin
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
Man tends to increase at a greater rate
than his means of subsistence.
- Charles Darwin
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts
and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -
a mere heart of stone.
- Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Charles Darwin
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science,
for they often endure long; but false views,
if supported by some evidence, do little harm,
for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
- Charles Darwin
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
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