Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
An honest man is always a child.
Man is a child of his environment.
In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
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