Эразм Роттердамский цитаты (85 цитат, страница 2)

крылатая фраза, придуманная кёльнскими теологами
Об Эразме
Источник: Л. Е. Пинский. Эразм и его «Похвала глупости» (IV) // Эразм Роттердамский. Похвала глупости. — М.: ГИХЛ, 1960.

„Налево площадь Эразмова, так называемая по бронзовой статуе известного ученого Эразма. Подойдем к оной ближе: несчастный Эразм, отягощенный толстою книгою, закутанный в священническую тех времен одежду, к бесславию художника похож более на соляной столб, нежели на монумент славе Эразмовой.“

Эразм Роттердамский

Рассказать ли вам что-нибудь об Эразме? Он родился здесь в Роттердаме в 1467 году, девяти лет он уже удивлял всех соотечественников своих; 14 лет писал самым лучшим языком латинским; 17 был принят в духовное звание — и столько прославился своею ученостию и остротою по всей Европе, что, вызванный в Англию, в короткое время заслужил знатный пожизненный пансион. После сего он путешествовал по всей Европе и, возвратясь опять в Англию, был принят с великою честию от короля Генриха VIII. Пришед однажды к знаменитому канцлеру Томасу Морусу и не давая о себе знать, столько обворожил Томаса своею любезностию и умом, что сей, поговорив с ним часа полтора, вскричал в восторге: «ты или Эразм, или сам дьявол!» Из его творений известнейшие суть: Похвала дурачеству и Сатирические сочинения. Он умер в 1536 году.

Source: Н. А. Бестужев. Избранная проза. — М.: «Советская Россия», 1983 г.

Николай Бестужев, «Записки о Голландии 1815 года», 1821
Об Эразме

Эразм Роттердамский: Цитаты на английском языке

“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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Desiderius Erasmus

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

“I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.”

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Desiderius Erasmus

As quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski, p. 312. From The Praise of Folly.

“This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.”

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Desiderius Erasmus The Complaint of Peace

The Complaint of Peace (1521)