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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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We must, on every occasion, be ready to prefer others to ourselves; to treat them with a kind of deference, even though they be our equals; to seem always the lowest and least in the company, where we are not very much distinguished above them: And if we observe these rules in our conduct, men will have more indulgence for our secret sentiments, when we discover them in an oblique manner. A person, that has lost a leg or an arm by amputation, endeavours for a long time afterwards to serve himself with them. There are, however, instances, in cases of less moment, wherein this immediate taste or sentiment produces our approbation. For, in the contrary case, it would be limited by a void time on the one hand, and by a void space on the other. No action would begin or cease to be in this subject; it would consequently be free from the law of all determination of time--the law of change, namely, that everything which happens must have a cause in the phenomena of a preceding state. Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time. It is not every removal in time, which has the effect of producing veneration and esteem. We have already seen that we are in possession of two perfectly different kinds of conceptions, which nevertheless agree with each other in this, that they both apply to objects completely a priorI. These are the conceptions of space and time as forms of sensibility, and the categories as pure conceptions of the understanding.