Calvin It's a magical world, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy ... let's go exploring.
Quotes about hobbes (15 Quotes)
'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.
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 demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
At first, I just randomly turned the pages. Page 95, Volume 1, Calvin and Hobbes are sitting under a tree. Do you think there is a God ... Well, somebody's out to get me.
Descartes said I think, therefore I am. Helvetius wants to say I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly. I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha
Hobbes got all my better qualities (with a few quirks from our cats), and Calvin my ranting, escapist side. Together, they're pretty much a transcript of my mental diary ... it's pretty startling to reread these strips and see my personality exposed so pl
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.
Calvin Medically speaking. That's love..... Hobbes Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties.
Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.
Whenever I made a traffic stop (Hobbes was) always barking, creating noise. Nobody will really know how many times she saved me from being assaulted.
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.
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
I didn't want 'Calvin and Hobbes' to coast into halfhearted repetition, as so many long-running strips do. I was ready to pursue different artistic challenges, work at a less frantic pace ... and start restoring some balance to my life.