The Task of Man

"Such is the task of man: it is inexhaustible, it is infinite, and quite sufficient to satisfy the heart and spirit of the most ambitious men. A transient and imperceptible being lost in the midst of a shoreless ocean of universal mutability, having an unknown eternity behind him and an eternity just as unknown ahead of him, the thinking, active man, the man who is conscious of his human mission, remains proud and calm in the awareness of his liberty which he is won by freeing himself through work and science and by liberating, through revolt when necessary, the men around him - his equals and brothers. This is his consolation, his reward, his only paradise" 

- Mikhail Bakunin