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Ennobling Quotes

Ennobling Definition

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.'
Immanuel Kant

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Thorstein Veblen

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
Huston Smith

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
Henry Taube

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
Christiaan Barnard

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
Julius Sterling Morton

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