Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

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.

Desiderius Erasmus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: October 28, 1466 - July 12, 1536

Topics

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Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

Jessica Stockholder

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By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Jeremy Grantham

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You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits

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This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Tom Daschle

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Breaking Bad' gave me a career. It gave me more work than I could possibly imagine - I started filming it when I was 14 years old, and I finished when I was turning 21.

RJ Mitte

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God, Americans know how to cook.

Rose Leslie

GodKnowCookHow

It's virtually impossible for most sites to do a billion page views in a month or even a year.

Ross Levinsohn

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I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

Miranda Lambert

YourselfPeopleThinkOutsideBox

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding

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I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing.

Jay Kay

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Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

Josh Silver

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When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Dolly Parton

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