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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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Now we may observe, that though in reflecting on human actions we seldom feel such a looseness or indifference, yet it very commonly happens, that in performing the actions themselves we are sensible of something like it: And as all related or resembling objects are readily taken for each other, this has been employed as a demonstrative or even an intuitive proof of human liberty.

 

The effects this propensity have been [SECT. 2, towards the end.] already observed in that resemblance, which we so readily suppose betwixt particular impressions and their external causes.

 This is the question which we have at present to answer. We see things around us change, arise, and pass away; they, or their condition, must therefore have a cause. We may add force to these experiments by others of a different kind, in considering the effects of contiguity, as well as of resemblance. For such certainty cannot be found in an a posteriori proposition; and the conceptions a priori of space and time are, according to this opinion, mere creations of the imagination, having their source really in experience, inasmuch as, out of relations abstracted from experience, imagination has made up something which contains, indeed, general statements of these relations, yet of which no application can be made without the restrictions attached thereto by nature.