Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Witty, Book, Men

• From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Book, Errors, Glasses

  Thomas Hobbes (1898). “The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works”

• The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophy, Book, Law

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 26, 1651.

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