Joseph Glanvill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Angel #Humanity #May
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Passion #Needs #Noise
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.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Understanding #Prejudice #Firsts
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Discouraging #Raises #Assurance
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.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Religion #Departure #Corruption
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Sage #Opinion
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Style
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
The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Understanding #Faculty #Wells
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Calling #World #Truth Is
Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Justice #Requirements
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Spring #Knowledge #Self
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Doubt #Needs #Certainty
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

#Judging #May #Impossible
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.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Inquiry #Matter #Belief
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Exercise #Belief #Reason
The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's noÂ concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and theyÂ that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, loveÂ for their own sakes, not their Lord's.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Christian #Charity #Unions
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
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
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.
-- Joseph Glanvill

#Women #Garden #Deceit

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