pessimism

academic

Arthur Schopenhauer

nihilism

will

tongue twister

pessimist

light bulb joke

optimism

Socrates

Friedrich Nietzsche

one-liner

existentialism

life

Jean-Paul Sartre

Slavoj Zizek

trolley problem

Transformer

misogyny

E.M. Cioran

artist

optimist

realist

relativism

skepticism

surrealism

physicist

utopian

chemistry

problem-solving

being right

therapy

is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

is an alienated form of despair, just as optimism is an alienated form of faith.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. Erich Fromm

is believing that life is a car wash and that one is on a bike.

A pessimist believes that life is a car wash, and he's on a bike.

is complaining about the noise when opportunity knocks.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Oscar Wilde

is important to society just as optimism is... the optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

Both optimist and pessimist contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern

is, in the long run, likely proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Daniel L. Reardon

is moral squinting... i.e. Being incapable of a straightforward view and instead imagining that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

Pessimist-Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust. - Paul Chatfield

is nice in that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George F. Will, The Leveling Wind

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pessimism