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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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Reason first appears in possession of the throne, prescribing laws, and imposing maxims, with an absolute sway and authority.

 This discovery of our deficiencies must produce a great change in the determination of the aims of human reason.] Antithetic is not, therefore, occupied with one-sided statements, but is engaged in considering the contradictory nature of the general cognitions of reason and its causes. They contain a certain perfection, attainable by no possible empirical cognition; and they give to reason a systematic unity, to which the unity of experience attempts to approximate, but can never completely attain. But it may well appear strange that reason, whose proper duty it is to prescribe rules of discipline to all the other powers of the mind, should itself require this corrective. That the latter use of a conception is the only admissible one is evident from the reasons following.