in itself

We have a moral aim only as our purpose coincides with some end-in-itself.

The soul, according to the Buddhist, is not a "self-in-itself."

If it be otherness-in-itself, it is so not because it is something qualified, because quality is not something qualified.

As a philosopher, he is interesting for his criticism of the theory of the “thing-in-itself” (Ding-an-sich).

As thing-in-itself, the Will is exempt even from the first of the forms of knowledge, the form of being 'object for a subject.'