Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.
Desiderius ErasmusRead first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
Desiderius ErasmusIt is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
Desiderius ErasmusAlmost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.
Desiderius Erasmus