Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
By a carpenter mankind was made, and only by that carpenter can mankind be remade. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
By burning luther’s books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men’s minds of him. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
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. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
It’s the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Luther was guilty of two great crimes – he struck the pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I’m not mistaken — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
What difference is there, do you think, between those in plato’s cave — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus