Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant

Walked the same Königsberg circuit every afternoon at the same hour. The neighbors set their clocks by me. The starry heavens above and the moral law within — that is enough.

Immanuel Kant
·1788·Königsberg, Prussia

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 merely conjecture them and seek them as though obscured in darkness or in the transcendent region beyond my horizon: I see them before me, and I associate them directly with the consciousness of my own existence.