Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson - Página 183de Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 184 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Newman Smyth - 1892 - 526 páginas
...in the modern world of this higher law has found noble expression in this famous sentence of Kant: " Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe the oftener and the more steadily they are contemplated, the starry heavens above me, and the moral law... | |
| Lady Wilde - 1893 - 374 páginas
...moments the well-known words of Kant may rise to the memory with a fuller sense of their sublimity :—' Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them—the starry heavens above, and the moral law within.'... | |
| William Chatterton Coupland - 1895 - 746 páginas
...will there sit a wiser man than I Upon this seat, and speak. Go, then! XIII. MORAL LAW—HOW FOUND. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law -vithin.... | |
| George Harris - 1896 - 468 páginas
...This, in fact, is the standard comparison, constantly repeated in the well-known saying of Kant : " Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the starry heavens above and the moral law within." The poet's apostrophe to duty takes up the same figure... | |
| John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 484 páginas
...expressed by Kant in a familiar passage, in which he states the two great objects of reverence. « "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them : the starry heavens above and the moral law within.... | |
| James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1897 - 598 páginas
...depths of awe, And reach the law within the law. •THERE are two things,' says Immanuel Kant, ' that fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe the oftener and the more steadily they are contemplated — the starry heavens above and the moral law... | |
| 1898 - 698 páginas
...this position of Carlyle, Dr. Mackensie adds that of Kant in his "Critique of Practical Reason," viz : "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing...the starry heavens above, and the moral law within" the first suggests an objective infinite of which we are necessarily a part, and the other as truly... | |
| Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1900 - 666 páginas
...exhaust the whole passion of life. Kant, in his "Theory of Ethics or Practical Philosophy," says: " Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing...the starry heavens above and the moral law within." It is equally true that no calling appeals so strongly to the imaginations of men as that of the astronomer.... | |
| Noah Knowles Davis - 1900 - 312 páginas
...reality.1 1 " Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them : the STARRY HEAVENS above and the MORAL LAW within. I have not to search for them and conjecture them as though they were veiled in darkness or were in... | |
| Frank Thilly - 1900 - 368 páginas
...when he said : " Two things fill the mind with new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them : the starry heavens above and the moral law within ; " 3 and when he wrote his celebrated apos1 " And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him,... | |
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