“As
a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a
philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a
conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously
logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap
of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined
contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and
fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious
into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight:
self doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings
should have grown”[1]
[1] Ayn
Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: Bobbs-Merrill,
1982) New York: Signet, 1984. p. 5.
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