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Quotation from Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind”
Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the First Edition (A vii), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)
The opening sentence of the book, describing reason's predicament with metaphysical questions.
Citation: "Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the First Edition (A vii), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855). (id critique-of-pure-reason-q1)
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