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Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.

— Ken MacLeod Learning the World (2005)

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I’m sure they’ll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.

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It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he’d ever imagined.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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