American Calvinist Philosopher

Famous quotes containing the words american, calvinist and/or philosopher:

    “It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world—it’s the American way of looking at things.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “Mr. Treat is described as a Calvinist of the strictest kind, not one of those who, by giving up or explaining away, become like a porcupine disarmed of its quills, but a consistent Calvinist, who can dart his quills at a distance and courageously defend himself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)