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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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This contrary biass is easily accounted for. Impressions always actuate the soul, and that in the highest degree; but it is not every idea which has the same effect. Thus, when a body moves in a uniform manner, it does not change its state (of motion); but only when all motion increases or decreases.] Thus a drunkard, who has seen his companion die of a debauch, is struck with that instance for some time, and dreads a like accident for himself: But as the memory of it decays away by degrees, his former security returns, and the danger seems less certain and real. It is certain, that these angles are not known to the mind, and consequently can never discover the distance. Property must be stable, and must be fixed by general rules. Time, no doubt, is something real, that is, it is the real form of our internal intuition. But, as no one ought to be blamed, merely because he does not feel himself justified in maintaining a certain opinion, as if he altogether denied its truth and asserted the opposite, it is more correct--as it is less harsh--to say, the deist believes in a God, the theist in a living God (summa intelligentia). But little self-denial, indeed, is needed to give up these pretensions, seeing the undeniable, and in the dogmatic mode of procedure, inevitable contradictions of Reason with herself, have long since ruined the reputation of every system of metaphysics that has appeared up to this time.