Occupation: Theologian Birth: October 27, 1466 Death: July 12, 1536
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his pers….
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters..
There is no joy in possession without sharing..
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king..
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know..
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….
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..
Your library is your paradise..
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and pl….
He who allows oppression shares the crime..
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence..
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they black….
Fools are without number..
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are..
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes..
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself..
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war..
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis..
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade..
It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born..