#seriousness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #seriousness, aggregated by home.social.
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#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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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)More info about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80074/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doctorwho #thirddoctor #actions #goals #gravity #manner #seriousness #style
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Trump’s Lawyers Argue You Can’t Take His Property Values Seriously
#TrumpPropertyValues #LawyersArgument #PropertyValues #Seriousness #LegalDefense #RealEstate #Politics #News
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#Children’s #picturebook #flagged at #Alabama #library because #author’s #lastname is ‘#Gay’.
“Although it is obviously #laughable that our picture book shows up on their list of #censored #books simply because the author’s last name is Gay, the #ridiculousness of that fact should not detract from the #seriousness of the #situation,” Brassard said in a #statement.
