Quotes About Dinge

One who states and proposes this scheme makes several claims about the Dinge: that they are not in space and time, for example, and more poignantly, that our concepts don't apply to them (applying only to the phenomena), so that we cannot refer to or think about them. But if we really can't think the Dinge, then we can't think about them (and can't whistle them either); if we can't think about them, we can't so much as entertain the thought that there are such things. The incoherence is patent.

Wenn der Staat und die Wirtschaft in ihren Datensystemen für jeden Bürger ein berechenbares Ich entstehen lassen, müssen wir eine Art literarisches Ich dagegensetzen, das Dinge tut, mit denen nicht zu rechnen war.