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We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Thinking, Play

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Camels, Three
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.91, Penguin

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Hate, Flower

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happy, Mother, Children

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Jobs, Children, Conscious

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Character, Childhood

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Passion, Two

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, Children, Produce
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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