These are “the doctrines” of men and “of demons”7 produced for itching ears of the spirit of this world’s wisdom: this the Lord called “foolishness,”8 and “chose the foolish things of the world” to confound even philosophy itself. For (philosophy) it is which is the material of the world’s wisdom, the rash interpreter of the nature and the dispensation
Tertullian, The Prescription against Heretics 7