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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“The philosophy of action for action, power for the sake of power, had become an established orthodoxy. “Thou has conquered, O go-getting Babbitt.””
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“There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.”
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