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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling  (Ennobling Quotes) It’s often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us  (Ennobling Quotes) Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism  (Ennobling Quotes) From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone  (Ennobling Quotes) The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic  (Ennobling Quotes) On my honor - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout’s Oath.  (Ennobling Quotes) In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes.  (Ennobling Quotes) All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.  (Ennobling Quotes) Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills  (Ennobling Quotes) It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships  (Ennobling Quotes) Every person, if he so wills, can become a paradigmatic human being, not by brushing of his accidental qualities, but by remaining in them and ennobling them. He ennobles them by choosing them  (Ennobling Quotes) Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society  (Ennobling Quotes) Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records  (Ennobling Quotes) All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom  (Ennobling Quotes) Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process  (Ennobling Quotes) One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation  (Ennobling Quotes) The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man  (Ennobling Quotes) Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos  (Ennobling Quotes) The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!  (Ennobling Quotes) Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can’t honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don’t have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things  (Ennobling Quotes) Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good  (Ennobling Quotes) The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge, and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character  (Ennobling Quotes) Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill  (Ennobling Quotes) In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship  (Ennobling Quotes) In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes  (Ennobling Quotes) What is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing  (Ennobling Quotes) Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind  (Ennobling Quotes)