Quotes About Thing-in-itself

The properties of a thing are effects on other 'things': if one removes other 'things', then a thing has no properties, i.e., there is no thing without other things, i.e., there is no 'thing-in-itself.

One of the broadest claims of this book is that there will be no further progress in philosophy or the arts without an explicit embrace of the autonomous thing-in-itself.

Kant's greatest merit," says Schopenhauer, "is the distinction of the phenomenon from the thing-in-itself.