Psychologically, the choice to think or not is the choice to focus or …

Ayn Rand
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Psychologically, the choice to think or not is the choice to focus or not. Existentially, the choice to focus or not is the choice to be conscious or not. Metaphysically, the choice to be conscious or not is the choice of life or death. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.193, Penguin
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