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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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Nay, more, reason itself cannot cogitate them as according with the general laws of experience. The highest formal unity, which is based upon ideas alone, is the unity of all things--a unity in accordance with an aim or purpose; and the speculative interest of reason renders it necessary to regard all order in the world as if it originated from the intention and design of a supreme reason. The former of these two celebrated men opened a wide door to extravagance--(for if reason has once undoubted right on its side, it will not allow itself to be confined to set limits, by vague recommendations of moderation); the latter gave himself up entirely to scepticism--a natural consequence, after having discovered, as he thought, that the faculty of cognition was not trustworthy. - I shall content myself with casting a cursory glance, from a purely transcendental point of view--that of the nature of pure reason--on the labours of philosophers up to the present time.
For the very essence of reason consists in its ability to give an account, of all our conceptions, opinions, and assertions--upon objective, or, when they happen to be illusory and fallacious, upon subjective grounds. What modi of the pure conceptions of reason these transcendental ideas are will be fully exposed in the following chapter. But this is not the proper place for discussing the peculiar method of transcendental philosophy, as our present task is simply to examine whether our faculties are capable of erecting an edifice on the basis of pure reason, and how far they may proceed with the materials at their command. - Testimonials - This consideration restores to Reason her courage; for what source of confidence could be found, if she, whose vocation it is to destroy error, were at variance with herself and without any reasonable hope of ever reaching a state of permanent repose? The first case is parallel to our reasonings from cause and effect; the second to education.