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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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First, It is obvious, that in reasonings of this kind, it is not the object presented to us, which, considered in itself, affords us any reason to draw a conclusion concerning any other object or event. For this reason, all the attempts which have been made to prove the principle of sufficient reason, have, according to the universal admission of philosophers, been quite unsuccessful; and, before the appearance of transcendental criticism, it was considered better, as this principle could not be abandoned, to appeal boldly to the common sense of mankind (a proceeding which always proves that the problem, which reason ought to solve, is one in which philosophers find great difficulties), rather than attempt to discover new dogmatical proofs. 2. A speculative interest of reason manifests itself on this side. But reason has no such influence. For reason is the faculty which furnishes us with the principles of knowledge a priorI. Hence, pure reason is the faculty which contains the principles of cognizing anything absolutely a priorI. An organon of pure reason would be a compendium of those principles according to which alone all pure cognitions a priori can be obtained. The former alone can we cognize a priori, that is, antecedent to all actual perception; and for this reason such cognition is called pure intuition.