Some Thoughts on Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | Brain Pickings

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by Maria Popova

“To live with sincerity in our culture of cynicism is a difficult dance — one that comes easily only to the very young and the very old. The rest of us are left to tussle with two polarizing forces ripping the psyche asunder by beckoning to it from opposite directions — critical thinking and hope.”

“Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté.”

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