“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe …”

Mar. 03, 2025 • Updated Mar. 03, 2025

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.1

— Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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