Occupation: Educator Birth: July 22, 1878 Death: August 6, 1942
If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order..
Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?.
The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful..
Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect..
There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis….
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with te….
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….
Children, being small and weak, have little market value..
If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve ….
Life bites like a dog..
I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way.
The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is..
Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others..
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….
When does the loneliness of old age begin?.
Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary..
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, ….
You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors..
I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned abo….
A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today..
The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly..