Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth26 October 1466
baby kissing men
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
affair obscure humans
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
book quality important
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
men long world
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
life inspire live-by
To know nothing is the happiest life.
heaven atheism scripture
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
advantage born educated
It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
wise men sides
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
fear prosperity pessimism
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
wise wisdom sin
He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
book use thumbs
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
christian ignorance giving
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more...
Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
men differences wife
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.