Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: thestarry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason [Lewis White Beck translation, A Liberal Arts Press Book, Bobbs-Merrill, 1956, p.166]; Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, A 289 [Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, Herausgaben von Wilhelm Weischedel, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, Erste Auflage, 1974, Insel Verlang Wiesbaden, 1956, p.300].
The State of Nature has a Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one: And Reason, which is that Law, teaches all Mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions.John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government, §6
Karman.y evâdhikâras te mâ phales.u kadâcana /
mâ karmaphalahetur bhûr mâ te sango 'stv akarman.i,Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.
Work not for a reward; but never cease to do thy work.The Bhagavad Gita, 2:47, Juan Mascaró translation [Penguin Books, 1962, p.52]
