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A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.


John Oliver Hobbes

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THOMAS HOBBES Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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THOMAS HOBBES Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or mo...
THOMAS HOBBES Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
THOMAS HOBBES No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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THOMAS HOBBES Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals.....
THOMAS HOBBES Pleasure therefore, (or Delight,) is the appearance or sense of Good; and Molestation or Displeasure...
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THOMAS HOBBES Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of deligh...
THOMAS HOBBES The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as...
THOMAS HOBBES In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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THOMAS HOBBES I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
THOMAS HOBBES Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
THOMAS HOBBES Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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THOMAS HOBBES Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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THOMAS HOBBES Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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THOMAS HOBBES Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
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CALVIN & HOBBES Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
CALVIN & HOBBES I wonder if I can grow fangs when my baby teeth fall out.
CALVIN & HOBBES What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero
CALVIN & HOBBES Don't walk away! I'm trying to apologize you dumb noodleloaf!
CALVIN & HOBBES What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
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CALVIN & HOBBES Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
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CALVIN & HOBBES Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBES Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight...
THOMAS HOBBES As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
THOMAS HOBBES The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent goo...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that val...
THOMAS HOBBES All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of t...
THOMAS HOBBES The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but t...
THOMAS HOBBES I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark.
THOMAS HOBBES The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
THOMAS HOBBES The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only
THOMAS HOBBES Maybe then I can finish my book.
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CALVIN & HOBBES Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that non...
CALVIN & HOBBES Unfortunately for my report, mom caught me and I didn't get to see how it ended.
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CALVIN & HOBBES Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBES So that in the nature of man,
we find three principal causes of quarrel:

First, Comp...
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THOMAS HOBBES Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
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CALVIN & HOBBES Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
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-What mood ...
CALVIN & HOBBES We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
CALVIN & HOBBES So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon ...
CALVIN & HOBBES Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your hea...
CALVIN & HOBBES Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young
CALVIN & HOBBES Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
CALVIN & HOBBES Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
CALVIN & HOBBES Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said," I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of th...
CALVIN & HOBBES Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that non...
CALVIN & HOBBES What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero
CALVIN & HOBBES - "I've been thinking Hobbes --"
- "On a weekend?"
- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."
CALVIN & HOBBES History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has or...
CALVIN & HOBBES Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of borin...
CALVIN & HOBBES Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
CALVIN & HOBBES People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up wi...
CALVIN & HOBBES Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.
CALVIN & HOBBES Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dre...
CALVIN & HOBBES To dream of a person you would like to be is to waste the person you are
CALVIN & HOBBES I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be to...
CALVIN & HOBBES The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you...
CALVIN & HOBBES Unfortunately for my report, mom caught me and I didn't get to see how it ended.
CALVIN & HOBBES His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
JAMIE OLIVER If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo...
OLIVER STONE