Netherlands

🇳🇱Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy

Stoicism

1632–1677

"Spinoza is the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. Intellectually, some others have surpassed him, but ethically he is supreme."

🇳🇱Henri J.M. Nouwen

Psychology

1932–1996

"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it"

🇳🇱Corrie ten Boom

Literature

1892–1983

"Love is larger than the walls which shut it in."

🇳🇱Geert Wilders

Politics

b. 1963

"Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam “the most retrograde force in the world”, and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran."

"It has been well remarked of the poems of Hafiz, that their refreshing influence does not depend so much on the sense of the words as on the tone of mind produced in the reader."

🇳🇱Peter Stuyvesant

Entertainment

1610–1672

"I shall govern you as a father his children."

🇳🇱Antonie Pannekoek

Philosophy

1873–1960

"Public ownership is a middle-class program of a modernized and disguised form of capitalism. Common ownership by the producers can be the only goal of the working class."

🇳🇱Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

Politics

1803–1875

"They are separated from the mass, set apart that they may be a peculiar people to the Lord."

🇳🇱Martinus J. G. Veltman

Science

1931–2021

"Great physics does not automatically imply complicated mathematics!"

🇳🇱Christiaan Huygens

Science

1629–1695

"Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt."

🇳🇱Johannes Warnardus Bilders

Art

1838–1865

"Yes, of course you want every shot to be a duck-bird"

🇳🇱Hadewijch

Literature

"They who stand ready to content Love are also eternal and unfathomable. For their conversation is in heaven, and their souls follow everywhere their Beloved who is unfathomable"

🇳🇱Jopie Huisman

Art

1922–2000

"Jopie Huisman in the Dutch Royal Artist Archive: RKD"

🇳🇱Jan Mankes

Art

1889–1920

"Besides, the entire impressionism usually presented merely the things from the outside. And sometimes they did it so perfectly that a seventeen century painting looks clumsy, as far as seeing is concerned."

🇳🇱Jan Tinbergen

Economics

1903–1994

"Models constitute a framework or a skeleton and the flesh and blood will have to be added by a lot of common sense and knowledge of details."

🇳🇱Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Art

Hague School

1824–1903

"I am here the doctor , bringing his morning visit. I feel them all the pulse. One I say: Wait, I'll make you an ointment, so you will refresh completely. The other I say: Friend, you need air, and even more the light."

🇳🇱Jacob Maris

Art

Hague School

1837–1899

"images of paintings and drawings by Jacob Maris, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

🇳🇱Hendrik Lorentz

Science

1853–1928

"H.A. Lorentz, The Theory of Electrons and Its Applications to the Phenomena of Light and Radiant Heat"

🇳🇱Rembrandt

Art

Dutch Golden Age painting

1606–1669

"Rembrandt van Rijn in the "History of Art"

🇳🇱Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries

Psychology

"Neurotic impostor CEOs are also highly likely to become addicted to consulting companies because reassurances provided by “impartial” outsiders compensate for the executives’ feelings of insecurity."

🇳🇱Jan van Riebeeck

1619–1677

"Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them."

🇳🇱Paul Gabriël

Art

Hague School

1828–1903

"images of paintings and drawings by Paul Gabriël, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

🇳🇱Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Economics

1880–1962

"Already then, there was in my subconsciousness as unsatisfactoriness about powerlessness, which was accompanied by being locked in a cage, whereby made taking an initiative, of any kind, impossible"

🇳🇱Gerardus 't Hooft

Science

"Deterministic underlying theories for QM are possible. They are still difficult to construct, but simple "toy models" are possible. These models are not good enough to replace today's existing quantum theories."

🇳🇱L. E. J. Brouwer

Mathematics

1881–1966

"Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer" by Mark van Atten in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

🇳🇱Frits Zernike

Science

1888–1966

"How I Discovered Phase Contrast", his Nobel lecture"

🇳🇱Jesse Klaver

Politics

b. 1986

"Those who are fleeing war and violence are entitled to protection and shelter. We want to govern, but not at any price. We want to create change. And to always continue seeing the people behind the policy."

🇳🇱Hugo De Vries

Science

1848–1935

"To put it in the terms chosen lately by Mr. Arthur Harris in a friendly criticism of my views: "Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest."