“The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935) American journalist
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 151
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“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.”
Francis Pharcellus Church Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1897)
Context: Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah,, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Variants: It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Book I, Ch. 23
Attributed
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
1870s, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
History of the Indies (1561)
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Seduce the Darkness
“We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn”
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.
