In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can … - Immanuel Kant

...by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect.

The use of the intellect in the sciences whose primitive concepts as well as axioms are given by sensuous intuition is only logical, that is, by it we only subordinate cognitions to one another according to their relative universality conformably to the principle of contradiction, phenomena to more general phenomena, and consequences of pure intuition to intuitive axioms. But in pure philosophy, such as metaphysics, in which the use of the intellect in respect to principles is real, that is to say, where the primary concept of things and relations and the very axioms are given originally by the pure intellect itself, and not being intuitions do not enjoy immunity from error, the method precedes the whole science, and whatever is attempted before its precepts are thoroughly discussed and firmly established is looked upon as rashly conceived and to be rejected among vain instances of mental playfulness.

Но такова уж обычно судьба человеческого разума, когда он пускается в спекуляцию: он торопится поскорее завершить свое здание и только потом начинает исследовать, хорошо ли было заложено основание для этого. Тогда он ищет всякого рода оправдания, чтобы успокоить нас относительно его пригодности или даже совсем отмахнуться от такой запоздалой и опасной проверки.