What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die, — Søren Kierkegaard, Journal AA
... that man has to find from himself both the end of his actions and the end of the world, and must attain to truth through himself, — Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy