Quotes by Erasmus, Desiderius

People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don' >>

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblan >>

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property g >>

Quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegor >>

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each >>

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to w >>

As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.

Erasmus, Desiderius