"What's impossible to all humanity may be possible……" — Joseph Glanvill
"What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels."
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Joseph Glanvill
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12 Quotes by Joseph Glanvill
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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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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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