there is often a lot more awesomeness stored up in a human work that you know is human.

If you like inspiring old philosophy, I'm reminded of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man:

Ignorant of how to yield to the angels and unable to endure the second places, let us compete with them in dignity and glory. When we have willed it, we shall be not at all below them