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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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If we have really an idea of power, we may attribute power to an unknown quality: But as it is impossible, that that idea can be derived from such a quality, and as there is nothing in known qualities, which can produce it; it follows that we deceive ourselves, when we imagine we are possest of any idea of this kind, after the manner we commonly understand it. We are in no want of words to denominate adequately every mode of representation, without the necessity of encroaching upon terms which are proper to others. Its idea is related to that of self, the object of the passion: The sensation it causes resembles the sensation of the passion. The critique of pure reason may be regarded as the highest tribunal for all speculative disputes; for it is not involved in these disputes, which have an immediate relation to certain objects and not to the laws of the mind, but is instituted for the purpose of determining the rights and limits of reason. They are still more frivolous, who say, that every effect must have a, cause, because it is implyed in the very idea of effect. The sum of all the possible objects of our cognition seems to us to be a level surface, with an apparent horizon--that which forms the limit of its extent, and which has been termed by us the idea of unconditioned totality. But not to lose time in examining, whether it is possible for our senses to deceive us, and represent our perceptions as distinct from ourselves, that is as external to and independent of us; let us consider whether they really do so, and whether this error proceeds from an immediate sensation, or from some other causes.