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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 conditions of sensuous intuition, which contain in themselves their own means of distinction, he did not look upon as primitive, because sensibility was to him but a confused mode of representation and not any particular source of representations.

 This conversion arises from the relation of objects to ourself. 

Nature has, therefore, chosen a medium, and has neither bestowed on every idea of good and evil the power of actuating the will, nor yet has entirely excluded them from this influence.

 You can get paid for stuffing envelopes from home!  The great propensity men have to pride may be considered as another similar phaenomenon. III The third limitation is, that the pleasant or painful object be very discernible and obvious, and that not only to ourselves, but to others also. And as our intuition is always sensuous, no object ever can be presented to us in experience, which does not come under the conditions of time. The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of one, who feeling in himself an inclination to it, is yet so overwhelmed with doubts and scruples, as totally to reject it. 
  • What will suffice to prove this hypothesis to the satisfaction of every fair enquirer, is to shew from daily experience and observation, that the objects, which are variable or interrupted, and yet are supposed to continue the same, are such only as consist of a succession of parts, connected together by resemblance, contiguity, or causation.
 Here, says he, "they are not philosophers, to whom it is easy in their schools to establish the finest maxims and most sublime rules of morality, who decide that interest ought never to prevail above justice. The division is contained only in the progressing decomposition--in the regress itself, which is the condition of the possibility and actuality of the series.