Collected works of Joseph Glanvill
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“Thomas Aquinas is but Aristotle sainted.”
Source: The vanity of dogmatizing: The three versions;
“Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.”
Source: Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises: The One, Lux Orientalis; Or, An Enquiry Into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Præxistence of Sovls
“We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.”
Source: Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; In an Essay of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinon. With a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius
“Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.”
“The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.”
Source: Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science
“There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.”
Source: Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion
“The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.”
Source: Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion
“The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.”
Source: Collected works of Joseph Glanvill
“How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.”
“What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.”
“And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.”
Source: Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion
Source: Collected works of Joseph Glanvill
“The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.”
Source: Collected works of Joseph Glanvill
Source: Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions [!] (1689)