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Quotation from Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
“But this land is an island, and enclosed by nature herself within unchangeable limits. It is the land of truth (an attractive word), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion”
Critique of Pure Reason, Analytic of Principles, Ch. III, Phenomena and Noumena (A 235–236 / B 294–295), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)
Kant's image for the limits of the understanding before the voyage into the Dialectic.
Citation: "But this land is an island, and enclosed by nature herself within unchangeable limits. It is the land of truth (an attractive word), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Analytic of Principles, Ch. III, Phenomena and Noumena (A 235–236 / B 294–295), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855). (id critique-of-pure-reason-q10)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
