Search results for “optimism”
From Living Tree Bridges to AI Systems: A Design Catalogue of Optimism and Resilience for a More Livable Future
“Design is the enzyme that helps people face and metabolize change.”
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning
“Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person… creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being.”
Walt Whitman on Democracy and Optimism as a Mighty Form of Resistance
“I can conceive of no better service… than boldly exposing the weakness, liabilities and infinite corruptions of democracy.”
Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair
“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
Erich Fromm on Human Nature, the Common Laziness of Optimism and Pessimism, and Why We Need Rational Faith in the Human Spirit
“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair… To have faith means to dare, to think the unthinkable, yet to act within the limits of the realistically possible.”
The Optimism of the Oyster
From the rudiments of consciousness to the redemptions of conservation, with a side of existential reckoning.
One Fine Day: David Byrne Performs His Hymn of Optimism and Countercultural Anthem of Resistance and Resilience with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
“I complete my tasks, one by one. I remove my masks, when I am done…”
Optimism: A Poetic Stop-Motion Celebration of Nature’s Resilience and the Persistence of Life Against All Odds
A spare and lovely ode to that which we so easily forget yet which animates the center of existence.
Simone de Beauvoir on Atheism, the Ultimate Frontier of Hope, and the Key to Moving Beyond the Simplistic Divide of Optimism and Pessimism
“To fight unhappiness one must first expose it, which means that one must dispel the mystifications behind which it is hidden so that people do not have to think about it.”
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