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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
What is your vision of ideal world?
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Positive society, positive world.
An optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
If we look forward to a future in which mankind behaves rationally and avoids self-destruction, we can visualize a world that will be more complicated than the one we know today, but a world that will run better and, most of all, a world in which the individual will count for more, not less.
A more just world is possible.
be possible that
L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism
No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.
minds must remain in possibility
I'm an idealist
who has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it
I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
Your actions now, define possibilities.
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
Possibility is spiritual.
Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Do you want to live in a world where things are possible or one where they aren't?
While I am sympathetic to the political project of an all-encompassing utopian inclusivity, I am less sanguine about its feasibility and more worried about
its cruelty.
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
I am, by nature, an optimist.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
A world without hope, but no despair
In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed ...
The optimist regards the future as uncertain.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is one, a humanity which is one, a humanity which shares everything outer and inner a deep spiritual brotherhood.
Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is - in essence - a closet pessimist.
The very existence of concepts such as justice, democracy and hospitality enables the promise of something beyond all conceived present possibilities: the only impossibility is the determination in advance that certain events would be impossible.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.
That which is possible is inevitable.
Live the rest of your life in possibility
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
I am always will be- the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of improbable dreams.
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist
while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!
Dwell in possibility
Pessimist, are you?"
"I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.
Fragmenting and colliding both hegemonic and oppositional codes, my goal is to reinscribe validity as a way that uses the antifoundational problematic to loosen the master code of positivism that continues to shape even postpositivism
Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility.
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
Imagine a perfect world
I'm a pragmatist.
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe
An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.
I'm a cynical idealist.
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God's power towards all and over all that is seen. (in No Rusty Swords)
Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.
A world where nothing is had for nothing.
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.
I'm not a Pollyanna; I'm a pragmatist.
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.
We could be a possibility
It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.
Now, I happen to be an optimist.
Perpetual possibilities exist to win the game of life.
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that
matter is utopian.
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
When you are nothing but pessimistic you are the enabling force of impossibility.
The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible.
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
There's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.
I may be an optimist.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success
the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history
with a society that provides opportunities for all.
Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?
Socialism with a human face.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
The possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing.
I am, if nothing else, an optimist.
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.
No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the administrative grid of its observations.
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.
The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Construction of the socialist future. No, thank you. In any case, if you
Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).
Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.
What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
An individualist - a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own - may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.
Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.