Glanvill Quotes

#1. It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.

Ben Aaronovitch

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

Joseph Glanvill

#3. The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

Roger Wicker

#4. When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

Leonard Woolley

#5. 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.

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill

#8. 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

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

Joseph Glanvill

#10. 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

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

Joseph Glanvill

#12. I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

Jay Griffiths

#13. There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

Christian Boltanski

#14. 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

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

Joseph Glanvill

#16. 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

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

Joseph Glanvill

#18. 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

#19. Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

Sylvia Earle

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill

#25. This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

Philip Zaleski

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

Joseph Glanvill