Seriousness
Seriousness (noun; adjective: serious) is an attitude of gravity, solemnity, persistence, and earnestness toward something considered to be of importance.
Read more about Seriousness.
Famous quotes containing the word seriousness:
“People do not become convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity or of the seriousness of your pain until you are dead.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“The Germansonce they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual thingsDeutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“A mans maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)