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Erasmus von Rotterdam
Geburtstag: 28. Oktober 1466
Todesdatum: 12. Juli 1536
Andere Namen:Gerrit Gerritszoon,Erazmus Rotterdamský
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Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterdam CRSA war ein bedeutender niederländischer Gelehrter des Renaissance-Humanismus. Er war Theologe, Priester, Augustiner-Chorherr, Philologe und Autor zahlreicher Bücher.
Ihm zu Ehren wurden das Erasmus-Programm für Studenten in der Europäischen Union, der Erasmuspreis sowie weitere Institutionen und Dinge benannt.
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„Der Körper kann ohne den Geist nicht bestehen, aber der Geist bedarf nicht des Körpers.“
— Erasmus von Rotterdam
Handbüchlein eines christlichen Streiters
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„Die Sanftmut macht uns empfänglich für den göttlichen Geist.“
— Erasmus von Rotterdam
Handbüchlein eines christlichen Streiters
„Je weniger wir Trugbilder bewundern, desto mehr vermögen wir die Wahrheit aufzunehmen.“
— Erasmus von Rotterdam
Handbüchlein eines christlichen Streiters
„Der Umgang mit Büchern bringt die Leute um den Verstand.“
— Erasmus von Rotterdam
Im entgegengesetzten Sinne gemeint)- Der Abt Antronius besucht Magdalia, 61 / Antronius
„Ich weiß nicht, ob jemand seinen Körper zur Gänze kennt. Und den Zustand seines Geistes soll jeder kennen?“
— Erasmus von Rotterdam
Handbüchlein eines christlichen Streiters
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„Was in der Natur liegt, gilt nicht als Verdienst.“
— Erasmus von Rotterdam
Handbüchlein eines christlichen Streiters
„Ist das menschliche Leben etwas anders, als ein Schauspiel, in welchem Jeder in einer besondern Larve auftritt, und so lange seine Rolle wegspielt, bis sein Principal zu ihm spricht: Tritt ab!“
— Erasmus von Rotterdam
Lob der Narrheit. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt von Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker. Basel: Johann Jacob Thurneysen, Jünger, 1780. S. 110. Google Books
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„There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness.“
— Desiderius Erasmus
Context: There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels — ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica. There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness. There are those, again, where the brethren are so sick of the imposture that they keep it up only to deceive the vulgar. The houses are rare indeed where the rule is seriously observed, and even in these few, if you look to the bottom, you will find small sincerity. But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. Suppose a house where all is as it ought to be, you have no security that it will continue so. A good superior may be followed by a fool or a tyrant, or an infected brother may introduce a moral plague. True, in extreme cases a monk may change his house, or even may change his order, but leave is rarely given. There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.
Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), publised in [http://books.google.com/books?id=ussXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=%22is+no+discipline+and+which+are+worse+than+brothels%22&source=bl&ots=PnJjrkSLNB&sig=JPY0PhTf2YgYwJlf3uH2eTvCJeA&hl=en&ei=BGwXTNqTA5XANu6_pJ8L&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22is%20no%20discipline%20and%20which%20are%20worse%20than%20brothels%22&f=false Life and Letters of Erasmus : Lectures delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1894)] edited by James Anthony Froude, p. 180
„I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth.“
— Desiderius Erasmus
Context: I have no patience with those who say that sexual excitement is shameful and that venereal stimuli have their origin not in nature, but in sin. Nothing is so far from the truth. As if marriage, whose function cannot be fulfilled without these incitements, did not rise above blame. In other living creatures, where do these incitements come from? From nature or from sin? From nature, of course. It must borne in mind that in the apetites of the body there is very little difference between man and other living creatures. Finally, we defile by our imagination what of its own nature is fair and holy. If we were willing to evaluate things not according to the opinion of the crowd, but according to nature itself, how is it less repulsive to eat, chew, digest, evacuate, and sleep after the fashion of dumb animals, than to enjoy lawful and permitted carnal relations?
In Praise of Marriage (1519), in Erasmus on Women (1996) Erika Rummel <!-- De Conscribendis Epistolas -->
„There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels“
— Desiderius Erasmus
Context: There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels — ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica. There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness. There are those, again, where the brethren are so sick of the imposture that they keep it up only to deceive the vulgar. The houses are rare indeed where the rule is seriously observed, and even in these few, if you look to the bottom, you will find small sincerity. But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. Suppose a house where all is as it ought to be, you have no security that it will continue so. A good superior may be followed by a fool or a tyrant, or an infected brother may introduce a moral plague. True, in extreme cases a monk may change his house, or even may change his order, but leave is rarely given. There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.
Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), publised in [http://books.google.com/books?id=ussXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=%22is+no+discipline+and+which+are+worse+than+brothels%22&source=bl&ots=PnJjrkSLNB&sig=JPY0PhTf2YgYwJlf3uH2eTvCJeA&hl=en&ei=BGwXTNqTA5XANu6_pJ8L&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22is%20no%20discipline%20and%20which%20are%20worse%20than%20brothels%22&f=false Life and Letters of Erasmus : Lectures delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1894)] edited by James Anthony Froude, p. 180
