Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Your library is your paradise.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.