Erasmus Quote by Julien Benda

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When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.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