Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models. — 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
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?… Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Start with that. Chaos. No control, no law, no government at all. Like being in the arena. Where do we go from… — Suzanne Collins 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
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
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?… — Bill Watterson 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
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
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
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will 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
“Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Hobbes took the madness of his age, considered it “normal,” and projected it back into prehistoric epochs of which he knew next… — Christopher Ryan 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
Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes.… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“Going further than Hobbes, who relied on the general convergence of interests between the Many and the One who rules, some of… — Albert O. Hirschman Copy Share Image
“CALVIN: Hey, I got some mail! It's a Valentine card. HOBBES: From Susie Derkins! CALVIN: It says "Please be my Valentine." HOBBES:… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, all the peace and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings… — Gregory B. Sadler 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
“The philosophy of Hobbes , it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
![“About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the…” quote by John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/john-aubrey-29611_convinced_about-thomas-hobbes-he-was-40-years-old_1668279.jpg)
