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
men village six
The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.
christian add theologian
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
heaven atheism scripture
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
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.
inspirational genius talent
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
life death time
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
bed designed hundred man nature tricks
A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he is disposed to make that use of her that nature designed her for
blind country king man
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king
inspirational uplifting light
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
two crowns guilty
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
missing-you plato real
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
positive being-yourself men
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
education wisdom lying
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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.