Full Idea
Even if we could bring this intuition of ours to the highest degree of distinctiveness we would not thereby come any closer to the constitution of objects in themselves.
Clarification
By 'intuition' he means normal experience
Gist of Idea
Even the most perfect intuition gets no closer to things in themselves
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B060/A43)
Book Reference
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.185
A Reaction
Either slightly ridiculous anti-realism, or a self-evident platitude. Personally I think I know the reality of trees pretty well, but to totally embrace their constitution I would have to become a tree (an Ent). My experience of me is only partial.