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Immanuel Kant
“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
“Thus all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Baruch Spinoza
“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
David Hume
“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
Immanuel Kant
“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
Marcel Proust
“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Baruch Spinoza
“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

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