On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no view, yet gives us a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data of the sensible world, and the whole compass of our theoretical use of reason, a fact which points to a pure world of the understanding, nay, even defines it positively and enables us to know something of it, namely, a law.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

This question comes to us nearly every day.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

The difference appears to be of bias, not of positive power, of thought and feeling differently disposed, and where the extremes merge towards unity, not easily discriminated.
— from Concord Days by Amos Bronson Alcott

“For two months,” says he, “I had to visit the units nearly every day and personally explain to the soldiers the necessity for discipline, encourage the officers, and urge upon the troops the necessity of an advance....
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

Our country was the only Government that used nitrostarch explosives during the war, and the development of this explosive made the loading problem easier and made possible the use of materials that were available and whose cost was low.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

: “The moral law, although it gives no view , yet gives us a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data of the sensible world, or from the whole compass of our theoretical use of reason, a fact which points to a pure world of the understanding, nay, even defines it positively , and enables us to know something of it, namely, a law.”
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

After strolling about picking up specimens, trying to learn from Mr. Wesley Hall to distinguish between good and bad stone, their differing qualities being to us novices extremely difficult to detect, we sat down quietly to enjoy the view and try to realise the truth of the wonderful stories we had been hearing, which seemed more fit to furnish material for a fresh chapter of the 'Arabian Nights,' or to be embodied in an appendix to 'King Solomon's Mines,' than 354 to figure in a business report in this prosaic nineteenth century.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

Many men feel the uncertainty; not everybody, dear."
— from Ailsa Paige: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

And when they do take up a novelty in their own profession they cherish it with an obstinate tenacity, and an extravagant passion, unknown to those quiet philosophers who take up novelties every day, examine them with the sobriety of practised eyes, to lay down altogether, modify in part, or accept in whole, according as inductive experiment supports or destroys conjecture.
— from A Strange Story — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron