The rules of morality therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The Ideal of Pure Reason Section I. Of the Ideal in General We have seen that pure conceptions do not present objects to the mind, except under sensuous conditions; because the conditions of objective reality do not exist in these conceptions, which contain, in fact, nothing but the mere form of thought.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Hence visions, suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to enter.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“To increase the horror of our capture, and to diminish the chances of our release!
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

And therefore seeing to Baptize is to declare the Reception of men into Gods Kingdome; and to refuse to Baptize is to declare their Exclusion; it followeth, that the Power to declare them Cast out, or Retained in it, was given to the same Apostles, and their Substitutes, and Successors.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Of the kind of belief produced by a practical faith If we look merely to the way in which anything can be for us (according to the subjective constitution of our representative powers) an Object of knowledge ( res cognoscibilis ), then our concepts will not cohere with Objects, but merely with our cognitive faculties and the use which they can make of a given representation (in a theoretical or practical point of view).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

That is why, at every moment of history, there have been so many things that we have not tried to understand, without even being conscious of our renunciation.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The characteristics of our romantic are to understand everything, TO SEE EVERYTHING AND TO SEE IT
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The day that we sought to put this to the proof, however, the hillock in the corner of our room, with all its rocks, and all its vegetation, vanished.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

A former settlement on Oothcaloga (Ougillogy) creek of Oostanaula river, near the present Calhoun, in Gordon county, Georgia; 2. Beaverdam creek, west of Clarkesville, in Habersham county, Georgia.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

"Very likely," said these officers to Washington, "the English vessels are to sail up between New York and Long Island, to cut off our retreat."
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

Other writers assume this attitude consciously, out of regard for the interests that pay their expenses on the trip.
— from Prowling about Panama by George A. (George Amos) Miller

A large tree; trunk usually long and straight; commonly occurring on rich soils.
— from Common Trees of Pennsylvania by J. E. Aughenbaugh

The average rural schoolhouse consists of one room, with perhaps a small hallway.
— from New Ideals in Rural Schools by George Herbert Betts

On the 25th of August, when the left half battalion left Ventersburg Road, I was directed by the General to proceed to Ventersburg town with a miniature column consisting of our right half battalion, B, C, D, and E companies: one company of the Derbyshire who had joined the Brigade at Bethlehem, and had remained with us ever since in the hope of some day rejoining their regiment: four guns of the 76th Field Battery, under Captain Moloney, and some of the Malta company of Mounted Infantry, under Lieut.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

Luther's Catechism is used in all Lutheran churches, and no catechism of other religious denominations has that honor.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente

The Cherokee name of Yellow-hill settlement, now officially known as Cherokee, the postoffice and agency headquarters for the East Cherokee, on Oconaluftee river in Swain county, North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Shells from our own guns screamed and passed safely over the ravine, but the shells from the Turkish batteries often burst exactly overhead, scattering shrapnel all round, at other times plunking into the cliff on our right and smothering us with clay and gravel.
— from With the Zionists in Gallipoli by J. H. (John Henry) Patterson

And, sir, would not all the world, from the eastern to the western hemispheres, blame our distracted folly in resting our rights upon the contingency of our rulers being good or bad?
— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

Then the wrecked couple climbed out of reach of the lunging waves, and stood breathless.
— from The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman