Quotes from Joseph Glanvill

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

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

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

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.

The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors

We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors.

Thomas Aquinas is but Aristotle sainted.

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.

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

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.

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