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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
"Dwell with yourself, and you will know how short your household stuff is."

Came across this in the beginning of Kant's *Critique of Pure Reason* and I'm totally at a loss for the meaning of the statement, let alone it's implications in the context of the preface.

Original Latin:
Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex

What does this mean and why does he say it?
gpt
He's talking about how we can solve questions of metaphysics by looking within ourselves/examining the necessary structure of our experience of the world. The metaphor is that if you live in your house, you'll end up familiar with what's available to you, in such a way as to make it clear that you had less than you thought you did. Kant's point is that when it comes to metaphysics, we can resolve all of our classical questions by realizing that the answers depend on ourselves in a crucial way. So "dwelling with yourself" here is the idea of reflecting on oneself/using one's own reasoning capacities.