Ayn Rand Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Birthday: February 2
Death: March 6
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live
source: Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin
topic: Life, Happiness, Death, Avoiding Death
