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  • Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

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    Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.43, Desiderius Erasmus

  • By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

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  • Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

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Desiderius Erasmus

  • Born: October 27, 1466
  • Died: July 12, 1536
  • Occupation: Theologian
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