"Even though faith can assume the shape of particular human moods, states, loves and other psychological characteristics and expressions, it goes considerably further, pointing man - like responsibility, with which it is closely linked - toward something that is both beyond things and within them: their 'absolute horizon.' This horizon, as the originator, the bearer, and the giver of meaning, far from being a cold, abstract astronomical and metaphysical quantum is, as it turns out, the source of those vital forces that exalt man, humanity and history. It might be put thus: if man is a kind of concentrated reprise of the great miracle of Being, then all visible expressions of his miraculousness have their origin in what primordially and uniquely binds him to the miraculousness of Being, that is, in his faith in the meaning of that miracle.. To be sure it is a carte blanche faith, but it is precisely this endless tension between the living experience of meaning on the one hand, and its unknowableness on the other, that gives real inner tension to all the actions by which man represents himself as man."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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