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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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But herein lies the difference betwixt them: The same good, when near, will cause a violent passion, which, when remote, produces only a calm one.

 WE submit your domain to 290 (two hundred ninety) of the top Search Engines and Online Directories.  A less degree of riches will suffice to this latter effect, than is requisite for the former. according to conceptions, is a question which it seems well nigh impossible to answer. Belief must please the imagination by means of the force and vivacity which attends it; since every idea, which has force and vivacity, is found to be agreeable to that faculty. Whatever is absurd is unintelligible; nor is it possible for the imagination to conceive any thing contrary to a demonstration. In all changes of phenomena, substance is permanent, and the quantum thereof in nature is neither increased nor diminished. I can proceed to examine my conception in concreto, and to cognize, either a priori or a posterio, what I find in the object of the conception. For this reason we cannot, in accordance with the categories, imagine or invent any object or any property of an object not given, or that may not be given in experience, and employ it in a hypothesis; otherwise, we should be basing our chain of reasoning upon mere chimerical fancies, and not upon conceptions of things. 
They contain merely the rule, by which we are to seek in the world of perception or experience the synthetical unity of that which cannot be intuited a priorI. But they are incompetent to present any of the conceptions which appear in them in an a priori intuition; these can be given only a posteriori, in experience, which, however, is itself possible only through these synthetical principles.
 It is rather our judgement which forms the proper test as to the correctness of the principles.