Have You Defined Your 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