But the very same subject, being on the other side conscious of himself as a thing in himself, considers his existence also in so far as it is not subject to time-conditions, and regards himself as only determinable by laws which he gives himself through reason; and in this his existence nothing is antecedent to the determination of his will, but every action, and in general every modification of his existence, varying according to his internal sense, even the whole series of his existence as a sensible being is in the consciousness of his supersensible existence nothing but the result, and never to be regarded as the determining principle, of his causality as a noumenon.
Baina subjektu horrek berak, bestalde, bere buruaz berbaitango gauza gisa jabetuz, bere izatea begiratzen du, denboraren baldintzapean ez dagoen heinean, horrek bere buruari emandako legeen bidez determinagarri bezala, eta bere izate horretan ez dago ezer bere nahimenaren determinazioaren aurretik, baizik eta ekintza oro eta barneko sentsuaren arabera aldatzen den haren izatearen determinazio oro, baita hark sentsuen zerizan gisa duen existentziaren ilara osoa ere, ez da begiratzen haren adimenduzko existentziaren kontzientzian ilara gisa, inoiz ez hark noumeno gisa duen kausalitatearen determinazio-oinarri gisa.