“But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call 'human nature,' the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think” ReasonConsciousnessHuman NatureTo BeTo Think Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“To think in a crowd where no thinking exists is to come out suddenly from the heavy fog, it is to appear out of nowhere!” To Think Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan