Hobbes
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The book’s style is more professorial than memoirist, and deals with themes from Aristotle and Plato to Hobbes, Nietzsche, Hegel and other more arcane philosophers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
He quotes the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives have been “nasty, brutish and short.”
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
The founders of these micronations — in the 2000s quite a few dot-com tycoons — were usually men of means, steeped in Ayn Rand and Thomas Hobbes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
Especially because I don’t precisely know who Hobbes and Rousseau are—but not knowing and admitting you don’t know are two completely different things.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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