Is it not senseless that he who speaks of the nature of things should not look at things themselves, but should confine himself to certain abstract conceptions?
But "good and evil are in things themselves," as is stated in Metaph.
Now order is to be found in things themselves, and flows from them into our knowledge.
On the other hand, charity is in an appetitive power, whose operation consists in the soul tending to things themselves.
Further, temperance is about the passions rather than about things themselves.
In the latter case, as an order or determination inherent in things themselves, it could not be antecedent to things, as their condition, nor discerned or intuited by means of synthetical propositions a priori.
We call real, objective products, or "things themselves" only such products as are revealed to us simultaneously by the senses and the mind.
It is not the "things themselves" which we see or feel, but their effects on our eyes, hands, etc.
Our brain does not assimilate the things themselves, but only their images, their general outlines.
Now after the divine goodness, which is an extrinsic end to all things, the principal good in things themselves is the perfection of the universe; which would not be, were not all grades of being found in things.
But this is plainly seen to be false from the very fact that things themselves have a mutual natural order and habitude.
God Himself, sometimes the powers given to things themselves; but not any self-subsisting things, as the ancients asserted.
For simple ideas are all from things themselves, and of these the mind CAN have no more, nor other than what are suggested to it.
Judgement, and not in reference to things themselves on behalf of the determinant Judgement.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "things themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
