The night is sublime, the day is beautiful. States of mind that possess a sense of the sublime are gradually drawn into lofty feelings of friendship, contempt for the world, and eternity by the tranquil silence of a summer evening, when the shimmering light of the stars breaks through the brown shadows of the night and the solitary moon stands in the field of vision. The bright day inspires busy zeal and a sense of cheerfulness. The sublime moves, the beautiful entices. Immanuel Kant's essay "Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime" was first published in 1764 and is part of the philosopher's early work.