To seek to look further, to go further, seems to me to be one of the splendid things that give sense to life. Like loving, or looking at the sky. The curiosity to learn, to discover, to look over the next hill, the desire to taste the apple: these are the things that make us human. As Dante’s Ulysses reminds his companions, we are not made “to live like brutes, but to seek virtue and knowledge.”
