So amazing and powerful!
Spontaneously, I had to think of what Immanuel Kant, who was considered so rational, had written.
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and the more persistently I think about them: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me." I connect both with the awareness of my existence. "The first begins from the place I occupy in the outer world of the senses, and extends the connection in which I stand into the immeasurably great with worlds above worlds and systems of systems, and furthermore into boundless times of their periodic movement, their beginning and continuation. The second begins with my invisible self, my personality, and presents me in a world that has true infinity, but is perceptible only to the mind, and with which (but thereby also simultaneously with all those visible worlds) I recognize myself not as there in a merely accidental, but in a general and necessary connection. The former sight of an innumerable multitude of worlds destroys, as it were, my importance as an animal creature, which must return the matter from which it was made to the planet (a mere point in space) after it has been endowed with vitality for a short time (one does not know how). The second, on the other hand, raises my value as an intelligence infinitely through my personality, in which the moral law gives me a life independent of animality and even of the whole world of the senses.
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