Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
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Quoted in Hippolytus, as translated in Reality? (1994), by Carl Avren Levenson and Jonathan Westphal, p. 10
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
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As quoted in Contemporary Literature in Translation? (1976), p. 21Heraclitus
A lifetime is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
Heraclitus
Until you have lost a child, you don't know what it is. Parents are supposed to die first. When your child is gone before you for an abnormal reason, it creates a whole abnormal situation... It was three years before I could even... I couldn't even look at Roman. Because, you see, I still expected Sharon to be with him, so I was playing games in my mind... Roman really loved Sharon, I know that, and he was very, very grieved.
Sharon Tate
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
Heraclitus
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.
Ramakrishna
To be a child is something one learns, as one learns the names of rivers or the kings of France. Childhood, for a child, is a sort of falseness, woodenness, stoniness, a lesson recited. Many children are aware of this — that is, aware of being children as a special, prosy condition: "We can't do that! We're children!" Playing children is a long boring game with occasional exciting moments.
Mary McCarthy
Heraclitus
Herbert, A. P.
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