All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized…

— Oscar Arias

“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

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in…

— Martin Luther

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines…

— J. M. Coetzee

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he…

— Stefan Zweig

“As Erasmus, the great Renaissance thinker, reminds us, “The best hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

— Daniel Goleman

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.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

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise…

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

— E. M. Forster

“It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he…

— Martin Luther

War is delightful to those who have not yet experienced it. -Erasmus

— Call Of Duty

“But I am well aware of the excuse which men, ever ingenious in devising mischief to themselves as well as others, offer in extenuation…

— Anonymous

“Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the…

— Hilary Mantel