Seriousness imparts an ethical imperative. There is an obligation to unlock the horizon and an obligation to do so in the correct way, so as not to lose sight of it. This comes from the seeming transcendent value bestowed on the object from the horizon. When one takes a job seriously, the obligation colors one's experience in a moral light, revealing coworkers who are not merely lazy but also immoral in their disregard for the work's importance, for example.
#seriousness
A quotation from Robert Holmes
SARAH JANE: You’re serious, aren’t you?
THE DOCTOR: About what I do, yes. Not necessarily the way I do it.
Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 11×01 “The Time Warrior,” Part 3 (1973-12-29)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doctorwho #thirddoctor #actions #goals #gravity #manner #seriousness #style
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2025-10-08And therefore all my trifling Songs adieu,
I now design to seek what’s good and true,
And that alone; I scorn my wanton Muse,
And lay up Precepts, such as I may use.
[Nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono;
quid verum atque decens curo et rogo et omnis in hoc sum;
condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “On the Importance of Philosophy”, l. 10ff (1.1.10-12) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78281/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #focus #frivolity #growingup #maturity #philosophy #retirement #seriousness #truthseeking #wisdom
Solemnity is the fool’s shield and buckler.
[La gravité est la bouclier des sots.]
Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1637 / 1051 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78201/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #dolt #fool #gravity #idiot #momentousness #protection #selfrighteousness #seriousness #shield #solemnity #pomposity #pomp
#usa #israel #iran : #war / #media / #journalism / #seriousness
„will“ or „would“…?!?
the psychotronic triple by EZ Loopaz, Bart, Seriousness
Paul Krugman recently wrote we're no longer a serious country. Which seems obvious, but he sums it up nicely - and in finance. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-no-longer-a-serious-country
It made me think of Ted Giola's writing last year that we have a crisis of seriousness. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/is-there-a-crisis-of-seriousness
A quotation from J. M. Barrie
MRS. DARLING: (from the window) Peter, where are you? Let me adopt you too. (She is the loveliest age for a woman, but too old to see PETER clearly.)
PETER: Would you send me to school?
MRS. DARLING: (obligingly) Yes.
PETER: And then to an office?
MRS. DARLING: I suppose so.
PETER: Soon I should be a man?
MRS. DARLING: Very soon.
PETER: (passionately) I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. No one is going to catch me, lady, and make me a man. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter Pan, Act 5 (1904, pub. 1928)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/76383/
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I may be a lonely, misunderstood genus, but i still crave my fools. I love a good time, even if it’s fucking stupid. The dumber the better.
#words #wisdom #smart #smartstuff #thinking #funny #lol #serious #reallyserious #seriousness #joke #jokes #sketch #obscurity #insane #sane #reality #revolt
A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
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We should note that games are not games for children but are to be judged as the most serious things they do.
[De vray il faut noter, que les jeux des enfants ne sont pas jeux: & les faut juger en eux, comme leurs plus serieuses actions.]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/35686/
#quote #quotes #quotation #children #competition #fun #games #play #seriousness
A quotation from Colton, Charles Caleb:
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/34647/
#quote #quotes #quotation #cheer #creativity #genius #goodhumor #gravity #greatness #meme #pomposity #selfimportance #seriousness #solemnity
A loose realiztion today while writing: Rigor is making the method the object at-stake in order to open the horizon of the teleos. In this way a discipline becomes serious meeting the definition - taking an object as the means towards a further horizon, in which the further horizon is made at-stake in the object.
Seriousness hurts philosophy in that it prevents:
1. wonder and curiosity
2. dialog outside of the Western Tradition
3. practical everyday resources
To name three off the top of my head.
Today I start writing my Sabbatical Project: A Serious Dilemma for a Serious Philosopher. I am so excited to start to write a book I have been think about for over ten years. I am asking the questions: what is #seriousness? Is #philosophy #serious?
Expect to see a focus and discussion around seriousness and philosophy from my post for the next few months. I hope it is as engaging and interesting a questions for you as it is for me.
A quotation from Addison, Joseph:
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TINSEL: We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/addison-joseph/6118/
"The more serious the face, the more beautiful the smile." — François-René de Chateaubriand — — — #FrançoisRenéde Chateaubriand #quote #quotes #quip #serious #seriousness #stern #smile #beauty #beautiful #contrast
Capturing the Quiet Intensity of MsSmith at the Botanical Arboretum A Portrait by William Albert Allard
See More Seeds: https://aidyslexic.raupulus.dev/collections/show/1391
#StableDiffusion #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #William-Albert-Allard #Botanical-Arboretum #Portrait #Seriousness #Style #Women #Photographer #Nature #Quiet #Intensity
A quotation from Pasternak, Boris:
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself — the gift of life — is such a breathtakingly serious thing! — Why substitute this childish harlequinade of adolescent fantasies, these schoolboy escapades?
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pasternak-boris/28855/
#quote #quotes #quotation #childishness #engagement #fantasy #immaturity #live #livelife #living #meaningoflife #seriousness
A quotation from Lessing, Gotthold:
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What have you to say against laughing? Cannot one be very serious even whilst laughing? Dear Major, laughter keeps us more rational than vexation.
[Was haben Sie denn gegen das Lachen? Kann man denn auch nicht lachend sehr ernsthast sein? Lieber Major, das Lachen erhält uns vernünftiger als der Verdruss.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/lessing-gotthold/66102/
#quote #quotes #quotation #anger #laughing #laughter #rationality #seriousness #goodhumor
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