Erasmus Of Rotterdam Quotes

#1. Erasmus of Rotterdam, a sixteenth-century priest who was committed to reforming the church from within, said, When faith came to be in writings rather than in hearts, contention grew hot and love grew cold. That which is forced cannot be sincere, and that which is not voluntary cannot please Christ.

Shane Claiborne

#2. I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There

Samuel R. Delany

#3. On the stand, I asked the witness, "What's your occupation?"
"Make-up artist."
"Objection!" I replied, "Lack of foundation.

Natalya Vorobyova

#4. All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.

Steven Erikson

#5. In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

Walter Darby Bannard

#6. I played football for seven years in Spain and was called everything because I was from South America, and I never went out crying like a baby, like Patrice Evra, saying that someone had said something to me.

Gus Poyet

#7. When everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Isabel Allende

#8. Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

Jonathan Haidt

#9. In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

Roberto Bolano