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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.