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“Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.”

Wells Children Philosophy Father Conditions Comfortable Desirable

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”

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Book:The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.”

Thinking Knows Children Philosophy Theology Inquiry Relentless

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.”

Children Philosophy Asks Absolutes Complexes Philosopher Naked Covered Creeds Dogma Smallest Leafs Figs

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

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Book:Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

“Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.”

Children Has Beens Philosophy Problem Certain Force Numbers Doors Philosophical Locks

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951