“I speak to my companions: some of them answer me that you have to take advantage of life…the others think they know something and get lost in extravagant ideas; all of it makes even more painful this feeling I have. I’m ready sometimes to fall into despair when I consider that after all my research, I know neither where I’m from, nor who I am, nor where I’m going, nor what I will become.” – Voltaire, Histoire d’un bon bramin