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Rotterdami Erasmus nemzetközileg ismert, saját „gyártmányú” latin nevén Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus nagy hatású németalföldi humanista tudós, Ágoston-rendi szerzetes, filozófus és teológus. A reformáció szellemi előfutára. Nevének régi magyar alakja: Rézmán.

Erasmus vérbeli tudós volt, akinek megvoltak a maga elképzelései a „tiszta” latin stílusról, amelynek egyik nyelvújítója ő maga. Bár egész életében megtartotta római katolikus hitét, műveiben bírálta a skolasztikát, a római egyház mértéktelen hatalmát, intézményrendszerét.

A frissen formálódó humanista szövegkritika elvei szerint átdolgozta a latin Újszövetséget, és sajtó alá rendezte a saját görög Újszövetség-kiadását , melyben igyekezett megállapítani a hiteles szöveget és a korábbi kiadások-változatok pontatlanságait. Olyan kérdéseket vetett fel, amelyek a reformációra is hatással voltak, mindazáltal a mai szövegkritika szempontjai szerint meghaladottnak tekintendő az Erasmus-féle kiadás, az Újszövetség kortárskritikai kiadásai nem azt veszik alapul.

Jelentősebb művei: A balgaság dicsérete, A keresztény fejedelem neveltetése, A béke panasza, Nyájas beszélgetések . Wikipedia  

✵ 28. október 1466 – 12. július 1536   •   Más nevek Gerrit Gerritszoon, Erazmus Rotterdamský
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Rotterdami Erasmus híres idézetei

„Az állatok csak természetes ösztöneiket követik; de az ember, hacsak nem tapasztalta meg a tanulás és a filozófia hatását, olyan ösztönöknek van kiszolgáltatva, amelyek rosszabbak, mint a vadállatoké. Nincs vadabb és veszélyesebb vadállat, mint az ember, akit a becsvágy, a kapzsiság, a harag, az irigység, a pazarlás és az érzékiség szenvedélyei sodornak magukkal.”

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„A beszéd csak akkor válik élővé, ha a szívből fakad, nem pedig akkor, ha az ajkakon lebeg.”

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Rotterdami Erasmus: Idézetek angolul

“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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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)