Sentence examples for Pessimistic philosophy from inspiring English sources

The pessimistic philosophy is somehow too assured.

Artistically severe and highly disciplined, Noh was imbued with the sternly pessimistic philosophy of Buddhism.

In it he examined society from the standpoint of a savage and gave the clearest statement of his pessimistic philosophy with its emphasis on willpower and struggle.

Ligotti's strange, funny, pessimistic fictions developed a cult reputation when the writer of the HBO series True Detective confessed that many of Matthew McConaughey's diatribes about the pointlessness of human consciousness were influenced by Ligotti's book of pessimistic philosophy, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.

Buddhism isn't a pessimistic philosophy.

This one concerns the degree to which Voltaire was advocating a pessimistic philosophy, by which Candide and his companions give up hope for a better world.

Horkheimer felt that Schopenhauer's pessimistic social philosophy more faithfully reflected the lost prospects for utopia than did the more optimistic social theories of the postwar period.

It spoke to people like me: the sarcastic, lethargic, vaguely disaffected legions drifting from McJob to McJob, mainlining pop culture and pop philosophy, pessimistic about the future (theirs and the planet's), feeling used-up and tired of life before it had even really begun.

Kant was determined to attack fashionable, pessimistic, and libertine philosophies, but he had to show that he rejected rationalist demonstration as thoroughly as any empiricist.

There is a philosophy called "pessimistic meta-induction from the history of science", which proposes that, since the most watertight of old theories have been disproved, we must assume today's theories will be disproved, too.

There are both optimistic and pessimistic strains in his philosophy.