“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 factthat man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not workautomatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logicare not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart isautomatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of yourlife, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free toescape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means ofsurvival—so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or notto be’ is the question ‘to think or not to think.
