Bernard Suits > Quotes

“Playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.”
― Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia

“Reference to eminent figures of the past serves to lend tone to what would otherwise be merely an honest search for the truth.”
― Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia

“That one has to be playing in order to be playing a game seems equally implausible. When professional athletes are performing in assigned games for wages, although they are certainly playing games, we are not at all inclined to conclude from that fact that they are without qualification playing. For we think of professional athletes as working when they play their games and as playing when they go home from work to romp with their children.”
― Bernard Suits

“Morality is relevant only to the extent that the ideal has not been realized, but there is no room at all for morality in the ideal itself, just as there is no room for revolution in the ideal which inspires revolutionary action”
― Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia