Janusz Korczak Quotes

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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 about the world, about man.

Janusz Korczak

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

Janusz Korczak

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

Janusz Korczak

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

Janusz Korczak

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.

Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak

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Born: July 22, 1878

Died: August 7, 1942 (aged 64)

Bio: Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor.

Known for:

King Matt the First (1922)
How to Love a Child (1919)
When I Am Little Again (1925)
Kaytek the Wizard (1934)
Ghetto Diary

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