Beauty Quote by Joseph Glanvill

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

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

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

— Joseph Glanvill

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

— 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 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

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

— Joseph Glanvill

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

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

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

— Joseph Glanvill

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

— Joseph Glanvill

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

— Joseph Glanvill