I'm a realist, not an optimist or a pessimist. One could easily imagine an unhappy optimist, and a happy pessimist. The other vein in von Wright's writings is moralist and pessimist. But he is not an unmitigated pessimist. A famous pessimist and loner, Salaak is a creature of protocol and laws. These were the years of fascism, which found him a grumbling and embittered pessimist. Philosophically, he was pessimist and an ardent disciple of Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann. It expresses a pessimist judgement about Spain. He always thinks Bob a "pessimist". Nietzsche saw Anaximander's philosophy as the "enigmatic proclamation of a true pessimist". Maybe it's because, at heart, I'm a pessimist. As such, she does not go out much and tends to be a pessimist. However, Nurkse, as an export pessimist, did not agree with this view. Arriving at Suriname, Candide meets Martin, a local pessimist. One of them is called "The Pessimist".