pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

square something with something US  UK 

~을 ~과 일치시키다[맞추다]/~와 일치하다[맞다]

The interests of farmers need to be squared with those of consumers. 

농부들의 이익을 소비자들의 그것과 일치시킬 필요가 있다.

-What I wonder though how you square your fundamental optimism about human nature with what seems to be pretty pessimistic analysis of what's happening in the world.

-The famous phrase that was borrowed by Gramci and that we should have pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will