The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention. Clifford D. Simak
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The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention. In a world where a person’s life is based on the question, “what if?,” the need to always have a reason for doing something is crippling. A person can never be free of this obsession because of the very nature of the question. In fact, it's one of humanity's greatest weaknesses.

Source: A Choice Of Gods

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