Joseph Glanvill Quotes

#1. 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

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

Joseph Glanvill

#3. The other thing that I love too is the enthusiasm of the QVC customer. She loves fashion, she loves looking great, and she loves discovering something new.

Brad Goreski

#4. He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

Zhuangzi

#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. The Way is in training ... Do nothing which is not of value.

Miyamoto Musashi

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

Joseph Glanvill

#11. 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

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

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill

#16. When they go low, we go high.

Michelle Obama

#17. 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

#18. To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.

Patrick White

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill

#23. Life is good for dreamers, if you are awake you're missing on some great fun

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Joseph Glanvill

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

Joseph Glanvill