Lecture XXXVII (Nr. 0497)

[492] However the concrete symbols are which are used for the training of ministers---this is not the decisive thing---they cannot be imposed on the university as a whole in ANY way. But the pointing to the symbols as such, their being under discussion and criticism, is something which points that the university also, in all its functions, is human and therefore MUST answer in symbols the question of the meaning of human existence.