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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and… — Immanuel Kant

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

In the original German

Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüth mit immer neuer und zunehmender Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht, je öfter und anhaltender sich das Nachdenken damit beschäftigt: der bestirnte Himmel über mir und das 35 moralische Gesetz in mir.

Immanuel Kant
Critique of Practical Reason · 1788
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Current citation
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason, translated by Mary Gregor. Cambridge University Press, 2015, conclusion.
Original citation
Kant, Immanuel. Critik der praktischen Vernuft [Critique of Practical Reason]. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788, conclusion.

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