Philosophers
- N.F.S. Grundtvig, educationalist, philosopher and social reformer.
- Harald Høffding, (1843–1931)
- Søren Kierkegaard, (1813–1855), philosopher
- Knud Ejler Løgstrup, Christian philosopher
- Johannes Sløk Christian philosopher and translator of Shakespeare
- Martinus Thomsen, (1890–1981), referred to as Martinus, writer and mystic
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
“When philosophers use a word—”knowledge,” “being,” “object,” “I,” “proposition,” “name”—and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?—What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)