Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt
WorksCritique Of Pure Reason; Critique Of Practical Reason; Critique Of Judgment; Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics; Answering The Question: What Is Enlightenment?; The Metaphysics Of Morals; Religion Within The Bounds Of Bare Reason