Top 100 Hobbes's Quotes
#1. Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.
David Hume
#2. The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life ... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Bill Watterson
#3. A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.
Alan Ryan
#4. If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#5. Today for show & tell, I've brought in some flash cards I made. Each card has a letter followed by several dashes. When I show the card, you yell out the vulgar, obscene or blasphemous word they stand for! ... Ready? ... She's such a hypocrite about building vocabulary.
Bill Watterson
#6. Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
Bill Watterson
#7. Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.
Bill Watterson
#8. I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
Bill Watterson
#9. Calvin: "I read this library book you got me."
Calvin's Mom: "What did you think of it?"
Calvin: "It really made me see things differently. It's given me a lot to think about."
Calvin's Mom: "I'm glad you enjoyed it."
Calvin: "It's complicating my life. Don't get me any more.
Bill Watterson
#10. I've never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what's the point? The guy's only going to take it off.
Candace Bushnell
#11. It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
Thomas Hobbes
#12. How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed product consumption, popular entertainment and spirituality would mix so harmoniously. It's a beautiful world, all right.
Bill Watterson
#13. It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.
Anthony Marra
#14. Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
Thomas Hobbes
#16. Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.
Bill Watterson
#17. County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when ... Hello?
Bill Watterson
#18. We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.
Candace Bushnell
#19. The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
Bill Watterson
#20. Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
Bill Griffith
#22. It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson
#23. Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.
Thomas Hobbes
#24. I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose
Bill Watterson
#26. Wake up, get up ... Shut up. Listen up ... Throw up ... Mix up, Goof up ... Hurry up ... "
"How's your day?"
"Looking up.
Bill Watterson
#27. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
#28. It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Thomas Hobbes
#29. Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
Bill Watterson
#31. Oh lovely snowball, packed with care, smack a head that's unaware! Then with freezing ice to spare, melt and soak through underwear! Fly straight and true, hit hard and square! This, oh snowball, is my prayer. I only throw consecrated snowballs.
Bill Watterson
#32. You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'
'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.
Bill Watterson
#33. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.
Bill Watterson
#34. Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Thomas Hobbes
#35. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Thomas Hobbes
#36. The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
Thomas Hobbes
#37. I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Bill Watterson
#38. Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!? ... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
Bill Watterson
#39. Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola ...
John Ratzenberger
#40. The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.
Thomas Hobbes
#41. It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."
Bill Watterson
#42. No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes
#43. Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.
Candace Bushnell
#44. Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
Thomas Hobbes
#45. Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle.
She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have.
I guess that makes sense.
Bill Watterson
#46. You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
Bill Watterson
#47. Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how it's so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that's it? This is what everyone's been raving about?
Candace Bushnell
#48. I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
Bill Watterson
#49. It's almost funny if it didn't piss me off so much.
Vincent Hobbes
#50. For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Thomas Hobbes
#51. This is where dad burried the little raccoon.
I don't even know he existed a few days ago and now he's gone forever. It's like I found him for no reason. I had to say good-bye as soon as I said hello.
Still ... in a sad, awful, terrible way, I'm happy I met him.
What a stupid world.
Bill Watterson
#52. For five years he [Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)] served as personal secretary to, yes, Francis Bacon. In fact, I've noted over a course of years that the job of a secretary can be utterly fulfilling just in case one's boss happens to be Francis Bacon.
Daniel N. Robinson
#53. Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.
Steven Pinker
#54. For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself
Thomas Hobbes
#55. Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes
#56. In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
Thomas Hobbes
#57. And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine
Thomas Hobbes
#58. Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes
#59. Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
Thomas Hobbes
#60. A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous
Thomas Hobbes
#61. Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
Thomas Hobbes
#62. To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.
Thomas Hobbes
#63. During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas Hobbes
#64. Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
Thomas Hobbes
#66. Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.
W.G. Pogson Smith
#67. Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
#68. Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
Thomas Hobbes
#69. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
Thomas Hobbes
#70. Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
#72. The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes
#73. It's a funny world, Hobbes."
"True."
"But it's not a hilarious world. ... unless you like sick humour."
"The world is probably funnier to people who don't live here.
Bill Watterson
#75. Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
Thomas Hobbes
#76. There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
Thomas Hobbes
#77. Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.
Thomas Hobbes
#78. A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes
#79. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a big fan of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.
Alex Hirsch
#80. Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am.
... I've got more brains than I know what to do with.
Hobbes: So I've noticed.
Bill Watterson
#81. Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.
Bill Watterson
#82. Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
Thomas Hobbes
#83. This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin ... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.
Thomas Hobbes
#84. Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
Thomas Hobbes
#85. Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Thomas Hobbes
#86. HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
Bill Watterson
#87. The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
Thomas Hobbes
#88. You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.
Bill Watterson
#89. They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
Bill Watterson
#91. By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
Thomas Hobbes
#92. Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
Thomas Hobbes
#94. Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
Thomas Hobbes
#96. For naturall Bloud is in like manner made of the fruits of the Earth; and circulating, nourisheth by the way, every Member of the Body of Man.
Thomas Hobbes
#97. The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.
Thomas Hobbes
#98. When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.
Thomas Hobbes
#99. Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
Thomas Hobbes
#100. I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
Thomas Hobbes
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