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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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Nay, more, how little cause should we have to place confidence in our reason, if it abandons us in a matter about which, most of all, we desire to know the truth--and not only so, but even allures us to the pursuit of vain phantoms, only to betray us in the end?

 
It is a logical postulate of reason; to pursue, as far as possible, the connection of a conception with its conditions.
 They are conceptions of pure reason, for they regard all empirical cognition as determined by means of an absolute totality of conditions. The brilliant claims of reason striving to extend its dominion beyond the limits of experience, have been represented above only in dry formulae, which contain merely the grounds of its pretensions. This language will be easily understood, if we consider what we formerly said concerning that reason, which is able to oppose our passion; and which we have found to be nothing but a general calm determination of the passions, founded on some distant view or reflection.