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 ...
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