What is hope? From my own reading, I found three passages that I enjoy very much; and on which I peruse repeatedly.
"...an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but in order to begin."
--Hannah Arendt, from 'The Human Condition'
"Thus even one of the Seven Sages says: 'Most people are bad', which is not far from Hobbes' opinion, which until recently
was almost overwhelmingly correct, that man is a wolf to man. But it is all a question of not agreeing with such opinions;
of recognizing the causes from which they will not spring nor need to spring for ever; knowing how bad so many things still
are, but knowing more deeply how good they could be."
--Ernst Bloch, from 'The Principle of Hope, Volume 2'
"I do not know of a better argument for an optimistic view of mankind, no better proof of their indestructible love
for truth and decency, of their originality and stubbornness and health, than the fact that this devastating system of education
has not utterly ruined them."
--Karl Popper, from 'The Open Society, Volume 1'
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