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Quotation from Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
“The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space”
Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction, §III (A 5 / B 8–9), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)
An image for reason's temptation to abandon experience, applied to Plato.
Citation: "The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction, §III (A 5 / B 8–9), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855). (id critique-of-pure-reason-q6)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
