34 Years Later, Hobbes' Wisest 'Calvin and Hobbes' Line Is Still a Perfect Comic Strip Quote

Here's something that might win you some points in a trivia game someday: Bill Watterson named the protagonists of Calvin and Hobbes after two European philosophers. John Calvin (1509-1564) was a controversial theologian whose ideas gave rise to the predestination-oriented Calvinist branch of Protestantism (thus mucking everything up for everyone for centuries to come). Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) wrote Leviathan , one of the foundational works of social contract theory. In general, trying to match either Calvin or Hobbes to their namesakes' philosophies doesn't work.