The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
— Adagia. Lateinisch / Deutsch
Erasmus of Rotterdam was a Dutch humanist, theologian and philosopher, and one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance. A Catholic priest with a gift for clear, natural Latin, he produced pioneering Greek and Latin editions of the Christian scriptures that shaped both the Protestant and the Catholic Reformation.
His other works include The Praise of Folly, The Complaint of Peace and On Free Will. He stayed in the Catholic Church all his life and argued for reforming it from within, for peaceable agreement and for tolerance on matters of lesser importance. That middle road disappointed partisans on both sides of the religious divide.
His other works include The Praise of Folly, The Complaint of Peace and On Free Will. He stayed in the Catholic Church all his life and argued for reforming it from within, for peaceable agreement and for tolerance on matters of lesser importance. That middle road disappointed partisans on both sides of the religious divide.
Most quoted works
- Against War 3
Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
— Against War
Moreover God hath ordained man in this world, as it were, the very image of himself, to the intent, that he, as it were a god on earth, should provide for the wealth of all creatures.
— Against War
We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.
— Against War
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.