It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our being mistaken in all… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
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… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share
