The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.