Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and accurately takes care of reflection: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Both things do not suppose I can try and simply as if they were hidden darkness or in the transcendent, outside of my horizon I see them in front of me and I connect immediately with the consciousness of my existence. The first starts from the place that I occupy in the external world of sense, and extends the connection in which I am infinitely large, with worlds upon worlds and systems of systems, and also in the indefinite time of their periodic motion, their beginning and their continuity. The second begins from my invisible identity, personality, and puts me in a world which has true infinity, but you can notice only the intellect, and who (but thanks to it with all those visible worlds) I I do not recognize, as there, in a purely connection accidental, but a necessary and universal. The first glance of a innumerable amount of worlds annihilates as it were my importance, which is that of an animal creature, which must return to the material from which planets arose, after being fitted for a short time (do not know how) life force. The second raises the contrary infinitely my value, which is an intelligence, because of my personality, in which the moral law reveals to me a life independent from the animal and also from the world of sense, at least it can be inferred from the destination end of my existence through this law, which is not limited to the conditions and boundaries of this life, but extends to infinity. But, wonder and respect so they can push the search, but not to replace the deficiency. (I. Kant)
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