We must all continuously recapture ourselves from indecision. - Karl Jaspers

Three things are required at a university: professional training, education of the whole man, research. For the university is simultaneously a professional school, a cultural center and a research institute. People have tried to force the university to choose between these three possibilities. They have asked what it is that we really expect the university to do. Since, so they say, it cannot do everything it ought to decide upon one of these three alternatives. It was even suggested that the university as such be dissolved, to be replaced by three special types of school: institutes for professional training, institutes for general education possibly involving a special staff, and research institutes. In the idea of the university, however, these three are indissolubly united. One cannot be cut off from the others without destroying the intellectual substance of the university, and without at the same time crippling itself. All three are factors of a living whole. By isolating them, the spirit of the university perishes.

Where all meaning disappears, and all certainty vanishes, something arises deep inside man: the self-preservation of his essential identity. This identity preserves itself through endurance - I have to face my destiny in silence - and through the courage to live and the courage to die with dignity.

The dissatisfaction with every particular mode of communication (c) leads to a will to total c, a will which can only be one and which is the authentically driving and binding force in all the modes of c.
But this will to communicate, which actualizes itself out of potential Existenz through reason in the three modes of encompassing, itself does not reach fulfillment. For it is continuously bound within the three modes and ,also, aroused and moved, yet it is, so to speak muddied in its mode. And finally, it finds itself limited through its own , as well as others' historicity. This historicity both brings communication in its depths before the multiplicity of truth and also lets it wrecked.
[***] It follows thirdly that ,if truth in communication can never be definitively won and established- truth like communication seeing itself, so to speak, disappear before Transcendence, change before Being- nevertheless, its resolute actualization brings forth also the deepest opennes fro Transcendence. Truth as Communicability from Reason and Existenz, Karl Jaspers