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.
Erasmus, Desiderius. Praise of Folly. Translated by Betty Radice, Penguin Books, 1971, p. 119.
Even though a Muslim and one of the senior members of Jinnah's Muslim League, he thought that Jinnah and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee were delusional about being able to have a Muslim nation encompassing the Punjab. He was right, and hundreds of thousands died in Sikh-Muslim attacks and then Hindu-Muslim conflict in the Punjab. Khizar left politics and would not take any post in Pakistan after the partition of the Punjab and the slaughter that followed.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. As a Catholic priest, Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Among humanists he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will, In Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.
