Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, David Grene (1989). “The Peloponnesian War”, p.584, University of Chicago Press

• As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Writing, Preparation, Darts

• For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Faith, Believe, Writing

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

• For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Eye, Writing, Light

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Third Part, Chapter 43, 1651.

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