Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed… — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad? — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
