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- Thomas Hobbes: British philosopher
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Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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(Hobbes:) Do you think there's a God? (Calvin:) Well, somebody's out to get me.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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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.
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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
Leviathan (1651) XIII -
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity, but not injustice or injury in the proper signification.
Leviathan (1651) XVIII -
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
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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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