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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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In virtue of its intelligible character, on the other hand (although we possess only a general conception of this character), the subject must be regarded as free from all sensuous influences, and from all phenomenal determination.

 Being fully convinced of the influence of this relation, I try the effects of the other; and by changing virtue for vice, convert the pleasant impression, which arises from the former, into the disagreeable one, which proceeds from the latter. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. A very play or romance may afford us instances of this pleasure, which virtue conveys to us; and pain, which arises from vice.