"It may not be impossible, but that our……" — 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 certain and assured."
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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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And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
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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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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
— Max Baucus
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We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but…
— Mortimer Adler
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left…
— Sitting Bull
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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
— Tony Campolo
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not…
— Maurice Chevalier
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Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be…
— Ronald E. Poelman
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