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
eye rocks self
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.
health prevention lifestyle
Prevention is better than cure.
encounters looks christianity
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
winning men self
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.
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.
christian charity being-the-best
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.
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.
men lasts miserable
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
education wisdom lying
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
names paganism legacy
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.