Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
Julian BagginiThe only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
Julian BagginiIf we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
Julian Baggini"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.
Julian Baggini