Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
The most important things in life aren't things.
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
God doesn't know things. He is things.