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IN ONE OF HIS letters to Erasmus, Luther said, "YOUR thoughts of God are too human." Probably
— Arthur W. Pink
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.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Retain the wind by compressing the belly.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
— Desiderius Erasmus
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
— Desiderius Erasmus
How do you like our England, you will say? Believe me when I assure you that I have never liked anything as much before.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
— Desiderius Erasmus
'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.
— Desiderius Erasmus
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
— Desiderius Erasmus
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
— Desiderius Erasmus
I hate one that remembers what's done over the cup.
— Desiderius Erasmus
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
— Desiderius Erasmus
A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
— Erasmus Darwin
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
— Desiderius Erasmus
It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
— Desiderius Erasmus
I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There
— Samuel R. Delany
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
— Desiderius Erasmus
When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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.
— Desiderius Erasmus
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
— Desiderius Erasmus
He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
— Desiderius Erasmus
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
— Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.
— Brian Herbert
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Let God be good," cried Erasmus the moralist. "Let God be God," replied Luther the theologian. Although
— Timothy George
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He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.
— Charles Darwin
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
— Desiderius Erasmus
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
— Desiderius Erasmus
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
— Desiderius Erasmus
It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.
— Erasmus Darwin
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.
— Erasmus Darwin
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Humility is truth.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
— Desiderius Erasmus
All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.
— Julien Benda
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
— Desiderius Erasmus
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
— Desiderius Erasmus
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Happiness is the wish to be what you are."(Erasmus)
— Jean Ciborowski Fahey
We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.
— Desiderius Erasmus
There is no joy in possession without sharing.
— Desiderius Erasmus
To know nothing is the happiest life.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows.
— Susan Vreeland
And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
— Erasmus Darwin
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
— Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful for those who don't know it
— Desiderius Erasmus
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
— Desiderius Erasmus
No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.
— Michel Foucault
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
— Desiderius Erasmus
E canchis amnia.Everything from shells. — Erasmus Darwin
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Eagles don't catch flies.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The desire to write grows with writing.
— Erasmus
Christianity, said Erasmus, has been made to consist not in loving one's neighbor but in abstaining from butter and cheese during Lent.
— Roland H. Bainton
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
— Desiderius Erasmus
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.
— Desiderius Erasmus
It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Your library is your paradise.
— Erasmus
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
— Desiderius Erasmus
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
— Isaac Newton
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
— Desiderius Erasmus
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
— Desiderius Erasmus
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
— Desiderius Erasmus
My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
— E. M. Forster
Fortune favors the audacious.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
— Erasmus
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
— Desiderius Erasmus
A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
— Desiderius Erasmus
To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
— Erasmus Darwin
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Fools are without number.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
— Erasmus Darwin
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
— Desiderius Erasmus
