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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“There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.”
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“The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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