Why is it that one gets such a pleasure from a nice breakfast setup? Ayn Rand elaborates: "The development of human cognition starts with the ability to perceive things i.e. entities. (...) The pleasure of contemplating the objectified reality of one's own sense of life is the pleasure of feeling what it would be to live in one's ideal world. The importance of that experience is not in what man learns from it, but in that she experiences it. The feel is not a theoretical principle, not a didactic message, but the life-giving fact of experiencing a moment of metaphysical joy – a moment of love for existence." Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
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