"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their……" — Joseph Glanvill
"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore."
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Joseph Glanvill
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12 Quotes by Joseph Glanvill
Joseph Glanvill has 12 quotes on this site.
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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
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We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from…
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And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God…
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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the…
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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility…
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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
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The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ;…
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Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble…
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To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times…
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Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
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That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our…
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More Certainty Quotes
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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