#ironia #elonmusk #happiness #mindfullnesscoach #personaldevelopment #zen #visionforlife #billionaireswisdom #wisdom #enlightment #seriousness #fascism #neofascism (yes all of that)
#seriousness
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2025-10-08
And 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
Vasco Matos: Santa Clara Must Stay Serious for Conference League Second Leg
#Secondgame #Seriousness #VascoMatos
https://blazetrends.com/vasco-matos-santa-clara-must-stay-serious-for-conference-league-second-leg/?fsp_sid=86531
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #peterpan #beard #boy #boyhood #childhood #fun #growingup #independence #job #maturity #office #play #school #schooling #seriousness #work #youth
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:
«
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:
«
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.]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/lessing-gotthold/66102/
#quote #quotes #quotation #anger #laughing #laughter #rationality #seriousness #goodhumor
A quotation from Blount, Roy Jr:
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A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/blount-roy-jr/64426/
#quote #quotes #quotation #books #drinking #reading #seriousness #summer
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