“By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not …” — Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

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.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.