Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Topics: Happiness
Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity. It makes their hearts pure and good, it lifts men up to their Father in heaven.
—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Topics: Home
Faith in God hallows and confirms the union between parents and children, and subjects and rulers.—Infidelity relaxes every band, and nullifies every blessing.
—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Education consists of example and love—nothing else.
—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Topics: Education, Example
Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his own 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?
—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Topics: Thought
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.
—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Topics: Oppression
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau French Philosopher
Carl Gustav Jung Swiss Psychologist
Johann Kaspar Lavater Swiss Theologian, Poet
Karl Barth Swiss Protestant Theologian
Alberto Giacometti Swiss Sculptor, Painter
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Swiss Poet
Henri Frederic Amiel Swiss Philosopher, Writer
Hermann Hesse Swiss Novelist, Poet
Jean-luc Godard French-born Swiss Film Director
Horace Mann American Educator