28 Quotes by Janusz Korczak

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

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

Life bites like a dog.

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

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

Take a look at the world and laugh.

Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

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