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
encounters looks christianity
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
nature believe ignorance
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
hate shoulders young
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
education library paradise
Your library is your paradise.
numbers fool
Fools are without number.
church one-day
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
doe pay intellect
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
jesus-christ made mankind
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
two crowns guilty
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
elements want chiefs
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
war people evil
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
positive being-yourself men
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
sweet peace war
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
book library christianity
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.