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 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 Image
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 Image
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
