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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.

Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy.

We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men.

This reduces the chances of cancer when using your phone & increases your signal quality drastically We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. Mean while it may not be amiss to observe from these definitions of natural and unnatural, that nothing can be more unphilosophical than those systems, which assert, that virtue is the same with what is natural, and vice with what is unnatural. Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. PART III OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES Now, as a like uncertainty and variety of causes take place, even in natural objects, and produce a like error in our judgment, if that tendency to produce error were the very essence of vice and immorality, it should follow, that even inanimate objects might be vicious and immoral. In this manner, the appointment of the position which must be taken by each conception according to the difference in its use, and the directions for determining this place to all conceptions according to rules, would be a transcendental topic, a doctrine which would thoroughly shield us from the surreptitious devices of the pure understanding and the delusions which thence arise, as it would always distinguish to what faculty of cognition each conception properly belonged. Any artifice of politicians may assist nature in the producing of those sentiments, which she suggests to us, and may even on some occasions, produce alone an approbation or esteem for any particular action; but it is impossible it should be the sole cause of the distinction we make betwixt vice and virtue.