Top 100 Quotes About Hobbes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.
Bill Watterson
#4. HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
Bill Watterson
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose
Bill Watterson
#10. Every day of my life I have to add another name to the list of people who p*ss me off
Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes
Bill Watterson
#11. Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?!
Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to.
Calvin: Oh.
Bill Watterson
#12. 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
#13. This a sacred rule we find
Among the nicest of mankind,
(Which never might exception brook
From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)
To doubt of facts, however true,
Unless they know the causes too.
Charles Churchill
#14. Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.
David Hume
#15. 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
#16. As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
Mortimer J. Adler
#17. 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
#18. I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd.
Robin Lord Taylor
#20. HOBBES:
If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.
Bill Watterson
#21. Calvin: Know what I pray for?
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
Bill Watterson
#22. Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called self-interestedness. This was not a
George Will
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
Jonathan Swift
#26. I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.
Simon Rich
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. ["Love is the love of one {singularly,} with desire to be singularly beloved." - Hobbes{Leviathan, (1651), Part I, Chapter VI}.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#30. I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Bill Griffith
#31. Calvin: I'm being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled!
Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant?
Calvin: I don't know, but I refuse to find out!
Bill Watterson
#32. For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. - HOBBES, Leviathan
Neal Stephenson
#33. Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.
Anthony Marra
#34. Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
Bill Watterson
#35. 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
#36. Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#37. Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.
-Hobbes
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. [I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.
Steven Pinker
#40. 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
#41. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.
Simon Mainwaring
#42. Thomas Hobbes in his 1651 masterwork Leviathan. I strongly recommend that you read part III, chapter 38, and part IV, chapter 44,
Anonymous
#43. There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
Thomas Hobbes
#44. Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
Thomas Hobbes
#46. 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
#48. Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
#49. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
Thomas Hobbes
#50. Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
Thomas Hobbes
#51. Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
#52. Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.
W.G. Pogson Smith
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous
Thomas Hobbes
#58. Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
Thomas Hobbes
#59. Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes
#60. And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine
Thomas Hobbes
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#65. I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
Thomas Hobbes
#66. Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
Thomas Hobbes
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#71. Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
Thomas Hobbes
#73. 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
#74. 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
#76. 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
#77. The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
Thomas Hobbes
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
Thomas Hobbes
#82. A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Wake up, get up ... Shut up. Listen up ... Throw up ... Mix up, Goof up ... Hurry up ... "
"How's your day?"
"Looking up.
Bill Watterson
#87. To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
Thomas Hobbes
#88. When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.
Thomas Hobbes
#89. The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.
Thomas Hobbes
#90. It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
#91. If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.
Thomas Hobbes
#92. In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
Thomas Hobbes
#93. And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.
Thomas Hobbes
#94. What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
Thomas Hobbes
#95. I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
Thomas Hobbes
#96. Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
#97. For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.
Thomas Hobbes
#98. Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.
Thomas Hobbes
#99. It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson
