Hobbes Quotes 

Bill Watterson, last line of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip, published December 31, 1995
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   Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

jonathan swift

— 1733  'On Poetry', l.319-20.

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[I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.

steven pinker

— p. 95 (The Blank Slate (2002))

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One of the first major steps in the direction of modern skepticism came through the victory of Occam over Aquinas in a controversy about language. The statement that modi essendi were replaced by modi significandi et intelligendi, or that ontological referents were abandoned in favor of pragmatic significations, describes broadly the change in philosophy which continues to our time. From Occam to Bacon, from Bacon to Hobbes, and from Hobbes to contemporary semanticists, the progression is clear: ideas become psychological figments, words become useful signs.

richard weaver

— “The Power of the Word,” p. 36

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Hobbes clearly proves that every creature lives in a state of war by nature.

jonathan swift

— Jonathan Swift, Poetry, A Rhapsody. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.

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We found that not only did our students stay interested, the learning that occurred was permanent. Our students were able to carry over and apply the concepts they learned from Calvin and Hobbes to their world.


— p. vi (Introduction)

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