Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
The perplexity into which it thus falls is not due to any fault of its own. It begins with principles which it has no option save to employ in the course of experience, and which this experience at the same time abundantly justifies it in using. Rising with these to higher and ever higher conditions, it soon becomes aware that in this way, the questions never cease, and that it must therefore betake itself to principles which overstep all possible empirical employment.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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