The Absence of Pain vs The Pursuit of Happiness“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Joy is not ‘the absence of pain,’ intelligence is not ‘the absence of stupidity,’ light is not ‘the absence of darkness… Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing. . . . Existence is not a negation of negatives.”
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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AuthorCharles Pearson CategoriesArchives
May 2020
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