“Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” IfsWorldEndsCountryMomentsWould BeJoyGamesHeavenNaturalThis WorldSeriousUpside DownUnimportantFrivolousSerious BusinessTruancy Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.” WorldStillsPleasureThis WorldTearsSeriousPromiseLaborWitTrialsThanksLabourAbandonSaltSevereGaiety Author:Ernest Legouve
“I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.” MenWorldBelieveMadeCountryFacesPoliticsI BelieveThis WorldSeriousThreatClimateClimate Change Author:David Cameron
“I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldActionStrongRiskInformationThis WorldSeriousFirmTechnologicalAmerican Life Author:Peter King
“When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.” WorldBelieveMatterYoungPoliticalOrderTurnsSocialClassPrinciplesThis WorldSeriousRegretInfiniteDebateBasic Principles Author:Richard Allen Epstein
“What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested.” IfsWorldGivingDoneEnoughMightTodayMovingEnergyTermEffortGreaterThis WorldSeriousGiving UpSpeedDisasterScalesConversionGhostAlternativesEtcEfficiencyAdjustmentTransportationRailLarge ScaleHigh SpeedSustainable EnergyHigh Speed Rail Author:Noam Chomsky