Philosophy
- Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637)
- Evert Willem Beth (1908–1964)
- Herman Dooyeweerd, philosopher Vrije Universiteit
- Desiderius Erasmus, writer, polemicist, humanist Protestant Reformation
- Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), also lawyer, playwright, & poet
- François Hemsterhuis (1721–1790)
- Johannes Jacobus Poortman (1896–1970)
- Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677), philosopher
- Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1830–1902), theologian and historian of religion
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Famous quotes containing the word philosophy:
“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation—a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, “You lose, I win”: good philosophy for the winner.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupin—the creative and the resolvent.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)