Famous quotes containing the words james and/or van:
“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”
—William James (1843–1916)
“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)