Janusz Korczak

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

— Janusz Korczak

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

— 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…

— Janusz Korczak

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Janusz Korczak

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

— 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

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

— Janusz Korczak

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

— Janusz Korczak

“I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently”

— Janusz Korczak

Children, being small and weak, have little market value.

— Janusz Korczak

Life bites like a dog.

— Janusz Korczak

You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors.

— Janusz Korczak

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to…

— Janusz Korczak

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

— Janusz Korczak

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

— Janusz Korczak

Dare to dream... something will always come of it

— Janusz Korczak

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

— Janusz Korczak

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

— Janusz Korczak

Take a look at the world and laugh

— Janusz Korczak