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en-wikipedia-org-8533		Wonder (emotion) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1491	255	56	It has historically been seen as an important aspect of human nature, specifically being linked with curiosity and the drive behind intellectual exploration.[1] Wonder is also often compared to the emotion of awe[2] but awe implies fear or respect rather than joy. He noted that when people first encounter a surprising or new object that is "far different from what we knew before, or from what we supposed it should have been, we admire it, and are astonished at it."[3] But Descartes, unlike the Greek philosophers before him, held a fundamentally negative view of admiration: "Although it is good to be born with some kind of inclination to this passion [admiration] because it disposes us to the acquisition of sciences, yet we ought afterwards to endeavor as much as we can to be rid of it."[4] In God in Search of Man, Abraham Joshua Heschel claims that wonder is a key emotion in living a worthy life.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8533.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8533.txt