26 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.