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1. "Neither need we fear to diminish a miracle by explaining it." ~ Christopher Wren
2. "Si monumentum requiris circumspice(If you seek his monument, look around.)[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]" ~ Christopher Wren
3. "A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth." ~ Christopher Wren
4. "In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry." ~ Christopher Wren
5. "The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble." ~ Christopher Wren

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[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes nothing to climate or genetics, added Keene, but is the result of the actions of writers, painters and theorists, who had actively shaped the sense of beauty of their nation.Contrary to the Romantic belief that we each settle naturally on a fitting idea of beauty, it seems that our visual and emotional faculties in fact need constant external guidance to help them decide what they should take note of and appreciate. 'Culture' is the word we have assigned to the force that assists us in identifying which of our many sensations we should focus on and apportion value to."
Author: Alain De Botton

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