The Vedanta system begins with tremendous pessimism, and ends with real optimism.
We deny the sense-optimism but assert the real optimism of the Supersensuous. That real happiness is not in the senses but above the senses; and it is in every man.
The sort of optimism which we see in the world is what will lead to ruin through the senses.
- Swami Vivekananda,
On the Vedanta Philosophy,
Notes from Lectures and Discourses
We deny the sense-optimism but assert the real optimism of the Supersensuous. That real happiness is not in the senses but above the senses; and it is in every man.
The sort of optimism which we see in the world is what will lead to ruin through the senses.
- Swami Vivekananda,
On the Vedanta Philosophy,
Notes from Lectures and Discourses
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