"His own inner defeat, the cynic projects onto others..."

“Another escape hatch for unadmitted guilt is cynicism. The difference between the pessimist and the cynic is that the pessimist carries on the losing battle against life in his own soul, while the cynic tries to wage the battle in someone else’s soul. His own inner defeat, the cynic projects onto others; because he is unhappy, he tries to make them unhappy by ridiculing the basis of their inner peace. Such a person tries to free himself from guilt by projecting it onto his neighbor.”

~Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Lift Up Your Heart)

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[Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest]

“Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.”

~ Stephen Colbert