Space and time are subjective forms of perception from "summary" of Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
The understanding is in an especial manner subject to the law of the necessity of a synthesis of the manifold; in other words, to the form of the inner sense, and to the conditions of sensibility, time and space. Time and space are, therefore, two sources of knowledge, from which various a priori synthetical cognitions can be drawn. But all these relations are nothing more than what always and of necessity belong to our sensibility, and which exist as a priori conditions of all objects which appear to us; for if we take away the subjective constitution of our senses, the knowledge of the objects, and of the manner in which we intuit them, is nothing. We must not represent to ourselves either space, or time, as properties which must be found in the objects themselves, or as a universally valid determinations, which are everywhere and always to be met with. For they are nothing more than subjective conditions of the intuition of our sensibility. We can have a priori intuitions no other than sensuous, and therefore we could not possibly have any intuition of the kind, and consequently no knowledge whatever of the existence of objects, as appearances, if the mind did not have a subjective constitution, under the condition of which alone they can be objects of intuition. We cannot represent to ourselves any object, as an object, if we do not at the same time subject it to the formal conditions of intuition, which alone make it possible for us to think an object as an object. Time and space are the subjective conditions of sensibility, under which alone we can possess intuitions of objects. It is only as appearances that things exist for us. They do not exist as things in themselves, but only as a modification or play of our sensibility; as objects of sense, not as things in themselves. Time and space are the subjective forms of our sensible intuition; they are conditions of the receptivity of our sensibility in general, under which alone it can receive representations.
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