Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not understand. Systems like theirs are only historical curiosities to the 20th century, unless they happen to claim to be appropriate descriptions of Reality. Anyone who believes in these antiquated fantasies stamps himself as ludicrous, posthumous, ineffective, and superfluous. No leading men of the coming decades will be Darwinians, Marxians or Freudians.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.