• Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

    Heraclitus: Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
    "Refutation of all heresies, Book IX (Fragment 52)". Book by Hippolytus of Rome (3rd century AD), as later translated in Carl Avren Levenson and Jonathan Westphal "Reality" (p. 10), 1994.