Action without ___ is folly.
(Passage context: I was engaged in many activities and I wanted a proper reconciliation between my activity and thought. Thought without ___ is undeveloped thought. Action without ___ is folly. Of course we ___ act on some impulse or ___ urge. If suddenly you throw ___ brick at me and my ___ goes up in front to ___ myself, it is an automatic, ___ action and not a result ___ deliberate thought. Our living is ___ by a series of automatic ___ from morning till night. Anything ___ do outside that common range of ___,...)
- Athought
- Bwish
- Cidea
Explanation
This mirrors the previous sentence with the thought–action pairing: 'Action without thought is folly.' 'Wish' (B) and 'idea' (C) would break the parallel contrast the author is developing. Hence the answer is A.