Reminds me of the gobbledygook of The Architect in "The Matrix: Reloaded".<p>Neo: "You haven't answered my question."<p>Architect: "Quite right. That was quicker than the others."
"Everything which is in any way beautiful is beautiful in itself, and terminates in itself, not having praise as part of itself. \nNeither worse then, nor better, is a thing made by being praised. \n\nI affirm this also of the things which are called beautiful by the vulgar; for example, material things and works of art. \n\nThat which is really beautiful has no need of anything; \nnot more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.\n\nWhich of these things is beautiful because it is praised, or spoiled by being blamed?\n\nIs such a thing as an emerald made worse than it was, if it is not praised? \nOr gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a little knife, a flower, a shrub?"