Philosophy

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." Ayn Rand, 1982

I received this quote arbitrarily a few days ago while I was reading and digesting some materials and thought it was pertinent.

Life gives us so much self-responsibility. We can choose to think our own thoughts, make our own philosophy, live our own life the way we choose or we can simply follow the flock and wonder when it’s all over what it was we were doing.

While I find this introspection sometimes daunting, I find it equally liberating simply to have to ponder the questions.