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Quotation from Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”
Critique of Practical Reason, Conclusion, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
The opening of the Conclusion, contrasting the vastness of the physical universe with the dignity of the moral person.
Citation: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within." — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Conclusion, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id kant-critique-of-practical-reason-q7)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
