Metamorphoses by Ovid: “Modo maxima rerum, Tot generis, natisque potens... Nunc trahor exul, inops. --Ovid, Metamorphoses. xiii”
Satires by Persius: “Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex. --Persius. Satirae iv. 52.”
The Republic by Plato: “The Platonic Republic has become proverbial as an example--and a striking one--of imaginary perfection, such as can exist only in the brain of the idle thinker; and Brucker ridicules the philosopher for maintaining that a prince can never govern well, unless he is participant in the ideas.”
Phaedon by Moses Mendelssohn: “He endeavoured to prove in his Phaedo, that the soul cannot be annihilated, by showing that a simple being cannot cease to exist.”
Books that mention Critique of Pure Reason (5)
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel: “he published his first major book, The Critique of Pure Reason, which challenged the empiricist theory of knowledge...”
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking: “the philosopher Immanuel Kant in his monumental (and very obscure) work Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1781”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “contrasted with Kant's Critique of Judgment on aesthetics”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig: “The bulk of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is concerned with how this a priori knowledge is acquired and how it is employed.”