The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
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This quote is just one of 7 total Whittaker Chambers quotes in our collection. Whittaker Chambers is known for saying 'The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
This quote is just one of 7 total Whittaker Chambers quotes in our collection. Whittaker Chambers is known for saying 'The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.' as well as some of the following quotes.