The faculty of sensuous intuition is properly a receptivity—a capacity of being affected in a certain manner by representations, the relation of which to each other is a pure intuition of space and time—the pure forms of sensibility.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Sun-worship has had a powerful influence on subsequent and more rational religions, and relics of it are to be found even in the symbolism of Freemasonry.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Causes they must be, and better known , and prior in time, causes , because we then know when we are acquainted with the cause, and prior , if causes, and known beforehand , not merely comprehended in idea but known to exist (The terms prior, and better known, bear two senses for prior by nature and prior relatively to ourselves are not the same, nor better known by nature , and better known to us I mean, by prior and better known relatively to ourselves , such things as are nearer to sensation, but abstractedly so such as are further Those are furthest which are most universal those nearest which are particulars, and these are mutually opposed) And by first , I mean principles akin to the conclusion , for principle means the same as first And the principle or first step in demonstration is a proposition incapable of syllogistic proof,
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

By his command the metropolis of the Eastern church was transformed into a mosque: the rich and portable instruments of superstition had been removed; the crosses were thrown down; and the walls, which were covered with images and mosaics, were washed and purified, and restored to a state of naked simplicity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He has always had a pleasure in our society, and always been with us.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

It was strange too that he found an arid pleasure in following up to the end the rigid lines of the doctrines of the church and penetrating into obscure silences only to hear and feel the more deeply his own condemnation.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

His mind was in a maze, and he wondered why there were in the world doctors, hospital assistants, merchants, clerks, and peasants instead of simple free men?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I may add as an explanation that the use of mystery has been attempted even in philosophy; for example, when Pascal, who was pietest, mathematician, and philosopher in one, says in this threefold character: God is everywhere centre and nowhere periphery .
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

If he finds any positive indication of "spirits," he records it, whatever it may be, and is willing to fit his conception to the facts, however grotesque the latter may appear, rather than to blot out the facts to suit his conception.
— from Memories and Studies by William James

His stables were filled with a perfect infirmary of superannuated chargers, fattened and conditioned up to a miracle, and groomed to perfection.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

He directed her to anathematize Peace, instead of scorning a fellow for doing the duties next about him: and the mention of Peace fetched him at a bound back to politics.
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith

Dr. Wollaston, 457 who analyzed this water obtained by Captain Smyth, truly inferred that an under-current of such denser water flowing outward, if of equal breadth and depth with the current near the surface, would carry out as much salt below as is brought in above, although it moved with less than one-fourth part of the velocity, and would thus prevent a perpetual increase of saltness in the Mediterranean beyond that existing in the Atlantic.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Giordano Bruno satirised the abuse of it, and said that without physical science "to be able to calculate and measure, to understand geometry and perspective, is but a pastime of ingenious fools," and warned his readers against confusing mathematical "signs" and real "causes": "a reflected or direct ray, an acute or obtuse angle, a perpendicular, incident or straight line, a greater or smaller are of a circle, such and such an aspect, are mathematical circumstances and not natural causes.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

Then in fact the bone dies on the surface; the superficial vessels receive no more blood; this fluid is stopped under the portion deprived of life, the exhalation of the phosphate of lime ceases there, every kind of sanguineous, exhalant and absorbent vessel is destroyed; a slow inflammation, with suppuration, comes on, and fixes the line of demarcation; and as this line is often at the same place, all which is above it becomes an inorganic layer which gradually falls off, and preserves its osseous solidity, because the dead absorbents were not able to remove the phosphate of lime.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

There is a public interest of saints, mutual edification in faith and love, which charity will prefer to its own private interest.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning