Joseph Glanvill Quotes
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
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.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
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 all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
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 literary correspondence.
Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.