An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

“The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air” feels the air push back and imagines she would fly faster in empty space. Plato left the senses behind in the same way. He found nothing to push against, so his thinking made no real progress.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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