Joseph Glanvill

Quotes

• “For Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty, hath need of a dose of Hellebore.”
• “The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Maker's.”
• “The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden.”
• “The Understanding also hath its Idiosyncrasies, as well as other faculties.”
• “The Sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a Metempsychosis.”
• “Time as a River, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.”

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