Philosophy and Children
 
Do not let philosophy slip away. It can teach you to differ between virtuality and reality and between information and knowledge. Let philosophy come to the children, and do not hinder them.

Spirit is to let the innocence be part of the consciousness. Children possess this capability, but we destroy it, because our target is the conscious consciousness.

Philosophy talks to the child in us, because philosophy is wondering. Therefore, philosophy for children is also for adults -- and therefore, there must be philosophy in any education: to keep the innocence, the innocently questioning to Life and existence. This is exactly why philosophy must never be systematized or institutionalized. No childhood without philosophy -- no philosophy without childhood. Listen, you people out there: This is the final message: switch off the systematizing work and let the innocence live. Philosophy IS innocence.

Philosophy is narcotics for thirsty, rationality-burdened souls.
All thinking is intuitive.
 
Working with philosophy can hopefully help people to a new optimism. This is one of the most profound reasons for philosophy for children.

Far too many children think apocalyptically. Philosophy must come into their lives earlier and earlier.

Philosophy is elucidation of, what we already know. Therefore, philosophy is art.

Philosophy is the poetry of spirituality, if it is metaphysics.

If philosophy becomes conventional, it will die.

Philosophy gives safety against barbarism, but only if it is understood as metaphysics.

Philosophy is silence, when everything else is speaking. Silence is a language, too.

Being free of compulsion, philosophy must fight against cynicism in Man. This is the rescue of the society.

Philosophy should work with the near things of everyday life and stay away from the great, massive objective problems. Therefore, philosophy for children is deeper and more existential than systematic philosophy.

Philosophy is innocence, as long as it works quetioning and not-ascertaining: if it is pure metaphysics.

Philosophy must not be a servant for science.

Philosophy must ensure free, informal dialogue.

Love of wisdom (philosophy) is love of innocence.

Cynicism takes the soul from the innocence. It undermines the emotions and consumes the spirit. Only philosophical dialogue can regain our innocence.

Logics leads to institutionalism, but we do not know.

History must be comprehended philosophically and not chronologically.

Cyberspace must relate to philosophy; otherwise it takes the power from us.

Philosophical dialogue is a mirror of the eternal, innocent world of thought.

Catch the innocence. It is always the necessary possibility.

Knowing yourself, you pity yourself first and subsequently you pity others. This universal pity leads to love.

Artists and children share the same spirit.nnocent.
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To be a child is to live in a glass globe, which will be shattered.

Children give us their confidence. Innocence means to receive it uncompromisingly.

Innocence is the spiritual freedom, which we have to secure that our children do not loose.

Spiritual violence against children is to take the spiritual freedom from them.

Lonesome children never develop a cynical personality. Or do they?

If cynicism comes into children's thinking, it is dangerous.

Already when you are ten, you have fled into cynicism, which might bear the stamp of innocence, if consciousness is not present.

Children live in the world of innocence. Adults make them guilty. Loosely, this is called upbringing and education.

If you discover, that your child tries to find its identity in virtuality, you have to know, that its morality and soul is in danger, and therefore, you have to intervene with philosophical initiatives.
 

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