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Desiderius Erasmus [1466-1536] Dutch

Rank: 101
Philosopher, Theologian

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
Erasmus was a classical scholar and wrote in a pure Latin style.

Men, Brainy, Education, Communication, Food, Happiness, Hope, Inspirational, Life, Money, Moving On, Nature, Peace, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.	Inspirational	101
He who allows oppression shares the crime.		102
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.	Happiness	103
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.	Women	104
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.		105
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.	Hope	106
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.	Education, Food, Money	107
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.	Men, Nature	108
Time takes away the grief of men.	Men, Moving On, Time	109
Your library is your paradise.	Education	110
Prevention is better than cure.		111
Fortune favors the audacious.	Brainy	112
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.	Truth	113
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.		114
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?		115
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.		116
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.	Brainy	117
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.		118
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.		119
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.		120
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.		121
The desire to write grows with writing.	Communication	122
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.		123
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.		124
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.	Men	125
Fools are without number.		126
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.		201
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.		202
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.		203
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.		204
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.	Peace	205
No one respects a talent that is concealed.		206
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.		207
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.	Wisdom	208
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.		209
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.		210
To know nothing is the happiest life.	Life	211
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.		212
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.		213
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.		214
Humility is truth.		215
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.		216
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.		217
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.		218
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.		219
Concealed talent brings no reputation.		220
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.		221
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?		222
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.		223
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.		224

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