“Two things fill the mind with ever-new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
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Kant closes his book on the highest good with the pair, and the ordering matters: the sky is the larger of the two. The sentence is the most quoted thing he wrote, and it compresses two separate investigations into one image.
Source: Critique of Practical Reason, 1788