“There is one postulate on which pessimists and optimists agree. Both their arguments assume it to be self-evident that life is good or bad according as it does or does not bring a surplus of agreeable feeling.”
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“There is one postulate on which pessimists and optimists agree. Both their arguments assume it to be self-evident that life is good or bad according as it does or does not bring a surplus of agreeable feeling.”
Herbert Spencer, The Data of Ethics
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