Joseph Glanvill Quotes

• And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Angel, Men, Yield

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• 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.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Hype, Judging, May

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• 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

  Time, Light, Rivers

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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

  Joseph Glanvill

  Exercise, Belief, Reason

  Joseph Glanvill (1979). “Collected Works of Joseph Glanvill”, Georg Olms Verlag

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

  Joseph Glanvill

  Sage, Opinion

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science”

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• How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Humanity, Spirit, Knots

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• La gran belleza de la verdadera religión es que sea universal, y apartarse en cualquier caso de la universalidad es una corrupción de la religión misma.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Religion, Departure, Corruption

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• The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Understanding, Faculty, Wells

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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• Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Angel, Men, Yield

  Joseph Glanvill, Anthony Horneck, Henry More (1966). “Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions [!] (1689)”

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

  Joseph Glanvill

  Discouraging, Raises, Assurance

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• Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Justice, Requirements

  Joseph Glanvill (1682). “Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises: The One, Lux Orientalis; Or, An Enquiry Into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Præxistence of Sovls”, p.97

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

  Joseph Glanvill

  Women, Garden, Deceit

  Joseph Glanvill (1985). “Collected works of Joseph Glanvill”

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• We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Calling, World, Truth Is

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• The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

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  Passion, Needs, Noise

  Joseph Glanvill (1665). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; In an Essay of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinon. With a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius”, p.122

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• Aquellos que nunca se asomaron más allá de la creencia común en la que sus fáciles entendederas fueron adoctrinadas al principio, están fuertemente seguros de la verdad de sus recepciones.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Understanding, Prejudice, Firsts

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• 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.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Distance, Mean, May

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• No podemos concebir cómo se forma el feto en el útero, ni cómo brota una planta de la tierra que pisamos... Y si ignoramos las cosas más obvias que nos rodean, y las más considerables que hay en nosotros, no es de extrañar que desconozcamos la constitución y los poderes de las criaturas, a las que somos tan extraños.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Primavera, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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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; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

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  Christian, Charity, Unions

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

  Joseph Glanvill

  Angel, Humanity, May

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• And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Math, Doubt, Needs

  Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

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• Que, aunque estemos seguros de muchas cosas, esa certeza no es una infalibilidad absoluta, pues aún existe la posibilidad de que nos equivoquemos en todos los asuntos de la creencia y la investigación humanas.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Inquiry, Matter, Belief

  Joseph Glanvill (1979). “Collected Works of Joseph Glanvill”, Georg Olms Verlag

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

  Joseph Glanvill

  Style, Acceptable

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