Question:
What is pessimism?
"Optimism ends in pessimism. Every pessimist has been an
optimist once -- he is an ex-optimist. He hoped too much and because those hopes were not
fulfilled he has become sour, angry, enraged. Now he cannot see the flowers and the stars.
He can't see anything beautiful; he goes on looking for the ugly. And when you look for
the ugly you will find it on every step. Whatsoever you look for you are bound to find it,
remember, because life consists of both -- positivity and negativity -- in the same
quantity. Life cannot exist without the other; the other pole is a must."
Complete
Response
Main Themes: optimism - pessimism - duality
Including: disappointment
- dialectics
- Karl Marx - the ultimate
synthesis