Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Quotes

• Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Children, Home, Joy

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• Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Helping, Unwilling

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1951). “The education of man, aphorisms”

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• Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

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  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Inspirational, Winning, Men

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1951). “The education of man, aphorisms”

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• The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Circles, Rounds

  "Evening Hour of a Hermit". Book by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, 1780.

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• Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Justice, Charity, Mercy

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• You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Son, Garden, Devil

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• Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Thinking, Saying Too Much

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• There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Heaven, Vengeance, Cry

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• So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Lying, Men, Light

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• I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Selfishness, Earth

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