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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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The removal of the intention, removes the mortification in the one case, and vanity in the other, and must of course cause a remarkable diminution in the passions of love and hatred.

 These passions are moved by degrees of liveliness and strength, which are inferior to belief, and independent of the real existence of their objects. For this reason we ought to call these conceptions, conceptions of comparison (conceptus comparationis). Attention: Some may, perhaps, find a contradiction betwixt this phaenomenon and that of sympathy, where the mind passes easily from the idea of ourselves to that of any other object related to us.