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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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In this case, I find it impossible to represent this necessity in or by any conception, and it exists merely in my own mind, as the formal condition of thought, but not as a material and hypostatic condition of existence. The notion of a Supreme Being is in many respects a highly useful idea; but for the very reason that it is an idea, it is incapable of enlarging our cognition with regard to the existence of things. When we reason from cause and effect, we conclude, that neither colour, sound, taste, nor smell have a continued and independent existence. This hypothesis is the philosophical, one of the double existence of perceptions and objects; which pleases our reason, in allowing, that our dependent perceptions are interrupted and different; and at the same time is agreeable to the imagination, in attributing a continued existence to something else, which we call objects. It animates the study of nature, as it itself derives its existence and draws ever new strength from that source. When we exclude these sensible qualities there remains nothing in the universe, which has such an existence. - Both philosophers and the vulgar suppose the first of these to have a distinct continued existence.
Such an existence is, in this case, too large for our empirical conception, and unattainable by the continued regress of any synthesis.