Quotes from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

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

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.

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

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

In its purity this life [in the home circle] is the highest, the most exalted that can be thought or dreamed of for the education of our race. It is unconditionally true: where love and the ability to love are found in the home circle there one can confidently predict that the education it affords almost never fails.

Learning by head, hand and heart

Ele estava ali — foram se aglomerando em volta dele —, e um disse: "Então você se tornou mais um pintor! Teria sido bem melhor se ficasse remendando nossos sapatos". Ele respondeu-lhes: "Eu os teria remendado, teria carregado pedras por vocês, por vocês teria ido buscar água — teria morrido por vocês —, mas vocês não me quiseram e no vácuo forçado de minha existência espezinhada não me restou nada senão aprender a pintar".

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

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

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?

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