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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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I leave this to the reader's own observation; desiring him at the same time to consider the additional force this bestows on the present system. The question then is, how from the same impression and the same idea we can form such different judgments concerning the same object, and at one time admire its bulk, and at another despise its littleness. For exampkle, I may compute the light of the sun, and say that its quantity is a certain number of times greater than that of the moon. PART II. OF THE IDEAS OF SPACE AND TIME, This obligation of interest rests nor here; but by the necessary course of the passions and sentiments, gives rise to the moral obligation of duty; while we approve of such actions as tend to the peace of society, and disapprove of such as tend to its disturbance. For that is necessary to produce a new idea of reflection, nor can the mind, by revolving over a thousand times all its ideas of sensation, ever extract from them any new original idea, unless nature has so framed its faculties, that it feels some new original impression arise from such a contemplation. The opposite of that which is changed--the opposite of its state--is actual at another time, and is therefore possible.