The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
Scientific Progress goes boink?
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins; that the wise man looks through them to reality. This counsel many anti-Zionists seem to have neglected. They are especially disturbed by the two nouns nationalism and commonwealth, and by the adjective political. And yet these terms on examination are not at all upsetting.
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
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.
I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?. . . . . Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.
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.
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's not that we never do these things, it's that they are hardly constituative of who and what we are.
HOBBES: If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. . . . I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.
Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.
Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool. " Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be "cool. " Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
