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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
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
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
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
"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'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
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.
— Bill Watterson
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
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
Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes — Bill Watterson
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
This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
— 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
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
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
You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.'
'That's why animals are so soft and huggy. — Bill Watterson
'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
Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.
— Thomas Hobbes
A great leap in the dark
— Thomas Hobbes
I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!
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Say's the dust speck. — Bill Watterson
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Say's the dust speck. — Bill Watterson
It's only work if somebody makes you do it.
— Bill Watterson
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
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose — Bill Watterson