“I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the ve…”

“I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.”

— Immanuel Kant

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Title: Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant
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Variant translation: I freely admit: it was David Hume's remark that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my enquiries in the field of speculative philosophy.

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Kant, Immanuel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

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