Joseph Glanvill Quotes

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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

Joseph Glanvill
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Joseph Glanvill
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on...And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

Joseph Glanvill
And for, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of.

Joseph Glanvill
And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Joseph Glanvill
According to this Hypothesis [that there is a sphere of fire under the concave of the moon], the whole Lunar world is a Torrid Zone; and on a better account, then Aristotle thought ours was, may be supposed inhabitable, except they are Salamanders which dwell in those fiery Regions.

Joseph Glanvill
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

Joseph Glanvill
The indisputable Mathematicks, the only Science Heaven hath yet vouchsaft Humanity, have but few Votaries among the slaves of the Stagirite.

Joseph Glanvill
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

Joseph Glanvill
The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Maker's.

Joseph Glanvill
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

Joseph Glanvill
And for Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of Hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

Joseph Glanvill
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Joseph Glanvill