Hope — a faculty decidedly different from and far more muscular than optimism — remains our most potent antidote to the passivity and resignation of cynicism. The great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm admonished against the common laziness of optimism and pessimism, but he extolled the counterpoint to both — active hope that empowers us “to think the unthinkable, yet to act within the limits of the realistically possible.”
Authors: Erich Fromm, Maria Popova
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Concepts, Hope, Psychology | Behavior
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Concepts, Hope, Psychology | Behavior
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