“From the verb suchen (to seek) the Germans make the present participle suchend, and use it substantivized, der Suchende (he who seeks), to designate those men who are not satisfied with the surface of things, but with every aspect of life they want reasoning to go to the bottom, and to realise oneself, the world, the relationships that exist between them and the world. That search which is in itself a finding.”

From the preface by Massimo Mila to the Italian edition of Siddhartha.