Endless Pursuit Quotes

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

There's no such thing as enough.

Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind.

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end... This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today's goal is only the starting point of tomorrow's journey.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

It is difficult if not impossible to find some reasonable limit for acquiring more and more property.

Where are we really going? Always home.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

There's always more money to be made.