All Joseph Glanvill Quotes
- What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. All
- 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… Cannot Conceive
- 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… All
- And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. Certainty
- 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… Assured
- 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… Absolute
- The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. Act
- 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 love… Charity
- Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. Angel
- To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a… Contrivances
- Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. Chains
- That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our being mistaken in all matters… Absolute