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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it. — Thomas Hobbes

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility. — Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. — Thomas Hobbes

From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced. — Thomas Hobbes

Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway? — Candace Bushnell

Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled. — Thomas Hobbes

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar. — Halliwell Hobbes

Hell is truth seen too late. — Thomas Hobbes

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth — Thomas Hobbes

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. — Thomas Hobbes

The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing. — Bill Watterson

I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius. — Bill Watterson

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

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions. — Thomas Hobbes

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends. — Bill Watterson

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. — Thomas Hobbes

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power. — Thomas Hobbes

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

Words are the money of fools. — Thomas Hobbes

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. — Thomas Hobbes

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause — Thomas Hobbes

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. — Thomas Hobbes

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. — Thomas Hobbes

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

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to. — Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes

Reality continues to ruin my life. — Bill Watterson

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... procrastinating and rationalizing. — Bill Watterson

Wake up, get up ... Shut up. Listen up ... Throw up ... Mix up, Goof up ... Hurry up ... "
"How's your day?"
"Looking up. — Bill Watterson

Scientific Progress goes boink? — Bill Watterson

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. — Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness. — David Hume

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals. — Thomas Hobbes

Yow. Guys can be so insecure. — Candace Bushnell

It's almost funny if it didn't piss me off so much. — Vincent Hobbes

Nature itself cannot err — Thomas Hobbes

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact. — Thomas Hobbes

It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. — Thomas Hobbes

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All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. — Bill Watterson

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. — Bill Watterson

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

Thomas Hobbes in his 1651 masterwork Leviathan. I strongly recommend that you read part III, chapter 38, and part IV, chapter 44, — Anonymous

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

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

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together. — Thomas Hobbes

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. — Thomas Hobbes

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man. — Thomas Hobbes

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. — Bill Watterson

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold. — Thomas Hobbes

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body? — Thomas Hobbes

Where there is no common power, there is no law — Thomas Hobbes

For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. - HOBBES, Leviathan — Neal Stephenson

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. — Thomas Hobbes

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

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter. — Thomas Hobbes

And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine — Thomas Hobbes

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin. — Bill Watterson

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness! — Thomas Hobbes

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. — Thomas Hobbes

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

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — Thomas Hobbes

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness. — Thomas Hobbes

I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love. — Candace Bushnell

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

Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge. — Thomas Hobbes

Corporations are "worms in the body politic" — Thomas Hobbes

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. — Thomas Hobbes

This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them. — Thomas Hobbes

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called. — Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes

My book is called, Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About Yourself. — Bill Watterson

Liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion — Thomas Hobbes

Life is nasty, brutish, and short — Thomas Hobbes

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels. — Thomas Hobbes

War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known — Thomas Hobbes

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason. — Thomas Hobbes

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice. — Bill Watterson

Look not at
the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow. — Thomas Hobbes

Reason is the Soul of the Law. — Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. — Thomas Hobbes

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money. — Thomas Hobbes

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. — Thomas Hobbes

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'
'That's why animals are so soft and huggy. — Bill Watterson

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking. — Thomas Hobbes

I've never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what's the point? The guy's only going to take it off. — Candace Bushnell

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. — Thomas Hobbes

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here. — Bill Watterson

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all. — Thomas Hobbes

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body — Thomas Hobbes

A great leap in the dark — Thomas Hobbes

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!
...
Say's the dust speck. — Bill Watterson

It's only work if somebody makes you do it. — Bill Watterson

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized. — Thomas Hobbes

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes

I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose — Bill Watterson

And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will . — Thomas Hobbes