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The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.
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Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.
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William De Witt Hyde
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Born:
September 23, 1858
Died:
June 29, 1917
(aged 58)
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William De Witt Hyde was an American college president, born at Winchendon, Mass.
Known for:
Practical idealism (1897)
Practical Ethics (1892)
Outlines of Social Theology (1895)
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