Intellectual Defenestration

The Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes on blogging (and anti-blogging):

[A]lmost all men think they have [wisdom] in a greater degree than the vulgar, that is, than all men but themselves, and a few others whom by fame or for concurring with themselves they approve. For such is the nature of men that, howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned, yet they still hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand and other men's at a distance. But this proves rather that men are in that point equal than unequal.
-Leviathan, part I, ch. 13