James Van de Velde is the name of:
- James Oliver Van de Velde (1795–1855), Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago between 1849 and 1853
- James Van de Velde (Yale lecturer), former Yale University lecturer, former person of interest in the Suzanne Jovin case.
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or van:
“Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatist I have so carefully posited ‘reality’ ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.”
—William James (1842–1910)
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—Anne Frank (1929–1945)