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“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“Intuition and conceptions constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither conceptions without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without conceptions, can afford us a cognition.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“Thus all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“For, so long as he conceives that he cannot do it, so long is he not determined to do it, and consequently so long is it impossible for him to do it.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

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intuition blindness God knowledge belief imagination thoughts thinking ideas object determination void content cognition impossibility

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Immanuel Kant (3)
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Critique of Pure Reason (3)
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