Little Philosopher Gifts

'This test doesn't understand me.'

'I understand how I was born; I want to know why.'

"It's not icky - it's tactile."

I think I can, I think I can ... therefore I think I am...

'I have an idea.'

"You got 136? It says here you're genius if you get a 132."

'I guess you've noticed that most of these trespasses are reruns.'

A young positivist.

Playdough's The Republic

'Well, if it's mine, why not give it to me?'

"What I did wasn't actually all that wrong, but the optics were bad."

'Does this have anything to do with Einstein's theory of relativity?'

"Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake... Well, that would be a pretty rotten thing to do, God, seeing as I'm only eight years old."

Cut the small talk-I'm almost seven.

'If milk is so good, why don't cows drink it?'

'You have a lot to learn about watching television -- that's an educational program!'

'May I speak to you as a man to a woman?'

'What happens after the end of time?'

"If something is neither here nor there, where is it?"

"Yesterday's weather forecast was wrong. Is that what is meant when they say 'fake news'?"

"You don't have to worry about using up your minutes."

Young Galileo Galilei.

'We studied the multiplication table in school today -- frankly, I don't believe a word of it.'

"I don't have to be carnivorous, you know."

'I know the earth is round - it says so in my text books - but who's kicking it around the sun?'

'Young lady, I'm afraid existential despair is no excuse for not eating your lima beans.'

Life on Earth - maths advice.

'George is very much in touch with his inner adult.'

"Mommy, watch, I'm living authentically!"

A child making an assumption based on appearances.

"I decided to get comfortable...we have a lot to talk about."

"Who cuts your mattes?"

"Trust me, Son, you do not want to 'grow up to be president.' "

"I find there's a lot of pressure to be good."

"She's not very good at defending herself, but she does very well at identifying her feelings."