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Age of Enlightenment1 quote
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. — Immanuel Kant · 1788Classical antiquity1 quote
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Socrates · 375 BCMiddle Ages1 quote
Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321The Renaissance1 quote
Now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires: Hesperus that led
The starry Host, rode brightest, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majesty, at length
Apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her Silver Mantle threw. — John Milton · 1667