“Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said."Religion without God.”
“Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.”
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
“Pessimism has its own secret Share of optimism in it too.”
“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”
“The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.”