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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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This appears very conspicuously with regard to time; where though it is evident we have no exact method of determining the proportions of parts, not even so exact as in extension, yet the various corrections of our measures, and their different degrees of exactness, have given as an obscure and implicit notion of a perfect and entire equality. For as on the one hand, in supposing ourselves existent in a point of time interposed betwixt the present instant and the future object, we find the future object approach to us, and the past retire, and become more distant: so on the other hand, in supposing ourselves existent in a point of time interposed betwixt the present and the past, the past approaches to us, and the future becomes more distant. But the case is entirely altered, when the passions unite together, and actuate the mind at the same time. I lost some pounds with every diet, and then eventually gained it back, usually with a few extra pounds. Nothing causes any sentiment to have a greater influence upon us than custom, or turns our imagination more strongly to any object. To the question, therefore, respecting the cosmical quantity, the first and negative answer is; "The world has no beginning in time, and no absolute limit in space." Men always consider the sentiments of others in their judgment of themselves. It is impossible for the mind to fix itself steadily upon one idea for any considerable time; nor can it by its utmost efforts ever arrive at such a constancy. A change of the obligation supposes a change of the sentiment; and a creation of a new obligation supposes some new sentiment to arise.