Elevates Quotes

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Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not… — Henry Clay
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner.… — Neil Genzlinger
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the… — Victor Hugo
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble… — Washington Irving
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it… — Dan Savage
Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at… — Michael Marshall Smith
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. — Alexander Pushkin
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology… — Michael Pollan
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do… — Khalil Gibran
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the… — Galileo Galilei
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of… — Gustave Flaubert
Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every… — Matthew Kelly
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means… — Erich Fromm
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through Ã¦ther, and are reflected… — Ann Radcliffe
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. — Walter Savage Landor
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. — E. O. Wilson
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about. — Greg Lynn
We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world.… — Melvin Calvin

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