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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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a habit acquired by what was never present to the mind.

 Mathematics and physics are the two theoretical sciences which have to determine their objects a priorI. The former is purely a priori, the latter is partially so, but is also dependent on other sources of cognition. 

I choose an object, such as virtue, that causes a separate satisfaction: On this object I bestow a relation to self; and find, that from this disposition of affairs, there immediately arises a passion.

 
And though the mother should be possest of a superior spirit and genius to the father, as often happens, the general rule prevails, notwithstanding the exceprion, according to the doctrine above-explained.
 Its application to an object, and the transcendental ground of this unity of subjective and objective, lie too deeply concealed for us, who cognize ourselves only through the internal sense, consequently as phenomena, to be able to discover in our existence anything but phenomena, the non-sensuous cause of which we at the same time earnestly desire to penetrate to. But this permanent something cannot be something in me, for the very reason that my existence in time is itself determined by this permanent something.