No thing-in-itself

We always project ourselves onto everything: what we believe, what we see, what we hear, what we feel, what we think and what we sense are discoveries of our own projections. That tree there, that building here, this God above me, this person below me : all my projections of my own inner alleys and secrets. This is how we carve out our space in the world, however fluid and mobile this space really is. We discover only what we invent, and then our eternal stupidity never ceases to be surprised at these very discoveries as if they were given to us by an external source. Eternal naivety - that's behind this wretched Unheimlichkeit!
There is an outside world - the great seducer - which is forever beyond our grasp. As the wanderer proclaimed: We are always in our own company...