“Living as I was then, like any individual I was tormented by the problem of how to live a better life.  I did not yet understand that in answering ‘live in conformity with progress’, I was speaking exactly like a person who is in a boat being carried along by wind and waves and who when asked the most important and vital question, ‘Where should I steer?’ avoids answering by saying, ‘We are being carried somewhere.'”

Leo Tolstoy, A Confession