Charles Darwin on Ethics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Charles Darwin, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
This page displays 4 quotations attributed to Charles Darwin and filed under "Ethics" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Charles Darwin, entry #228421: "The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts."
Attributed to Charles Darwin, entry #67563: "It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant."
4 Quotes by Charles Darwin on Ethics
"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts."
"It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant."
"Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct."
"When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man."