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Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it…

— Janusz Korczak

To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights…

— Janusz Korczak

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

— Janusz Korczak

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher,…

— Janusz Korczak

If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a…

— Janusz Korczak

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

— Janusz Korczak

There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of…

— Janusz Korczak

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

— Janusz Korczak

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love…

— Janusz Korczak

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

— Janusz Korczak

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

— Janusz Korczak

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

— Janusz Korczak