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is a matter of grave importance commanding utmost respect in a utilitarian age.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. Charles Dickens

is more than true... not because fairy tales tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Fairty tales are more than true... not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

is, along with play, not something belonging only to childhood. 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.

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

is quite a different thing for our ancestors, who took the certainty of morality and the world on faith. For them, it amazed by allowing its listener for once to float and to escape the rules of eternity. How very different things are for us, who are forever floating. For us, what is amazing is the feeling of momentarily standing with both feet on firm earth.

Formerly. nothing was known of this fickleness of everything human... the mores of morality3B sustained the faith that all of man's inner life was attached to iron necessity with eternal clamps. Perhaps people then experienced a similarly voluptuous amazement when they listened to fairy tales. The miraculous gave a great deal of pleasure to those who at times grew tired of the rule and of eternity. To lose firm ground for once! To float! To err! To be mad! That was part of the paradise and the debauchery of bygone ages, while our bliss is like that of a man who has suffered shipwreck, climbed ashore, and now stands with both feet on the firm old earth-amazed that it does not waver.

is a horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.

Fairy tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.

is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind - it thus secretly lives on in the story.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind. Even today it secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

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