22+ Joseph Glanvill Quotes On Mystic, Rationalism And Supernatural

Joseph Glanvill was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman of the 17th century. He is best known for his work Saducismus Triumphatus, which was an argument for the existence of witchcraft and ghosts. Glanvill's work was influential in the development of the scientific method and the emergence of the Enlightenment. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Joseph Glanvill on life, love, leadership.

Top 10 Joseph Glanvill Quotes

1. There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.
2. Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
3. 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.
4. And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
5. 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.
6. The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
10. The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

Joseph Glanvill Short Quotes

• The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
• How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.
• The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.
• We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
• Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
• The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

Joseph Glanvill Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Joseph Glanvill

Joseph Glanvill's work emphasizes the importance of reason and science in understanding the world. He argued that knowledge is acquired through careful observation and study, rather than through superstition and blind faith. His writings also emphasize the need to question and challenge existing beliefs, and to be open to new ideas and perspectives.