The mountains of achievement are quality discovered in one direction only, and are relatively meaningless and often unattainable unless taken together with the ocean trenches of self-awareness

That is what caring really is, a feeling of identification with what one's doing. When one has this feeling then he also sees the inverse side of caring - quality itself.

You point to something as having quality and the quality seems to go away.

The inability of science to grasp quality as an object of inquiry makes it impossible for science to provide a scale of values.

And now I began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when man gained power to understand rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth - but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.