Erasmus von Rotterdam Zitate (52 Zitate, seite 2)

Adagiorum chiliades (Sprichwörtersammlung), 1.4.50
Original Latein: "Aethiopem lavas. Aethiopem dealbas. […] Hoc item peculiariter quadrabit, cum res parum honesta verborum fucis adornatur, aut cum laudatur illaudatus, aut docetur indocilis."

„Etwas anderes ist das Szepter, etwas anderes die Leier.“

Erasmus von Rotterdam

Adagia 4,1,56
Original Latein: "Aliud sceptrum, aliud plectrum."

„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!“

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Lob der Narrheit. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt von Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker. Basel: Johann Jacob Thurneysen, Jünger, 1780. S. 110.

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„"Wie ein Sattel nicht zum Ochsen, so passt die Bildung nicht zur Frau."(Im entgegengesetzten Sinne gemeint) - Der Abt Antronius besucht Magdalia, 65 / Antronius“

Erasmus von Rotterdam

Über Frauen , Über Bildung , Sinn

„Der Besitz verschafft Freunde. Das gebe ich zu. Aber falsche. Und er verschafft sie nicht dir, sondern sich.“

Erasmus von Rotterdam

„Es tut halt so sauwohl, keinen Verstand zu haben, dass die Sterblichen um Erlösung von allen möglichen Nöten lieber bitten, als um Befreiung von der Torheit.“

Erasmus von Rotterdam buch Lob der Torheit

Quelle: Lob der Torheit, 1509

Über Liebe

Erasmus von Rotterdam: Zitate auf Englisch

“A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.”

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Desiderius Erasmus

Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114

“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.”

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Letter to Lambertus Grunnius (August 1516), published in Life and Letters of Erasmus : Lectures delivered at Oxford 1893-4 (1894) 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 edited by James Anthony Froude, p. 180

“For we have in Latin only a few small streams and muddy puddles, while they have pure springs and rivers flowing in gold. I see that it is utter madness even to touch with the little finger that branch of theology that deals chiefly with the divine mysteries, unless one is also provided with the equipment of Greek.”

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Desiderius Erasmus

As quoted in Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017) by By Eric Metaxas, p. 85

“War is sweet to them that know it not.”

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Desiderius Erasmus

Dulce bellum inexpertis.
Though Erasmus quoted this proverb in Latin at the start of his essay Bellum [War], and it is sometimes attributed to him, it originates with the Greek poet Pindar ("γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος [War is sweet to them that know it not.]").
Variant translations:
War is sweet to those not acquainted with it.
War is sweet to those who do not know it.
War is sweet to those that never have experienced it.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Misattributed