Quotes of Ellen Key - somelinesforyou

“ The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. ”

- Ellen Key

“ The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ”

- Ellen Key

“ At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Everything, everything in war is barbaric … But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Everything, everything in war is barbaric … But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. ”

- Ellen Key

“ The genius of happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child. ”

- Ellen Keymelody Beattie

“ All philanthropy… is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading. ”

- Ellen Key

“ The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ”

- Ellen Key

“ The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. ”

- Ellen Key

“ All philanthropy… is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Art, that great undogmatized church. ”

- Ellen Key

“ For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Art, that great undogmatized church. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ”

- Ellen Key

“ The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ”

- Ellen Key

“ The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ”

- Ellen Key

“ When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. ”

- Ellen Key

“ All philanthropy… is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ”

- Ellen Key

“ Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. ”

- Ellen Key

“ All philanthropy… is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading. ”

- Ellen Key

“ For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life. ”

- Ellen Key

“ All philanthropy… is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading. ”

- Ellen Key

“ The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. ”

- Ellen Key

“ At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ”

- Ellen Key
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