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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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The former appertain absolutely and necessarily to our sensibility, of whatsoever kind our sensations may be; the latter may be of very diversified character.

 
The proper determination of these relations rests on the question, to what faculty of cognition they subjectively belong, whether to sensibility or understanding?
 Click here to learn more: Now, as all our intuition is sensuous, imagination, by reason of the subjective condition under which alone it can give a corresponding intuition to the conceptions of the understanding, belongs to sensibility. In the aesthetic, I regarded this unity as belonging entirely to sensibility, for the purpose of indicating that it antecedes all conceptions, although it presupposes a synthesis which does not belong to sense, through which alone, however, all our conceptions of space and time are possible. It is an operation of the understanding on sensibility, and the first application of the understanding to objects of possible intuition, and at the same time the basis for the exercise of the other functions of that faculty. But we are speaking here merely of phenomena in space and time, both of which are determinations of sensibility, and not of things in themselves. Now, independently of sensibility, we cannot possibly have any intuition; consequently, the understanding is no faculty of intuition.