“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
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“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.”
― Finite and Infinite Games
― Finite and Infinite Games
“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.”
― Finite and Infinite Games
― Finite and Infinite Games
“It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a leap from here to there, leaving out the in-between... What is usually overlooked, however, is that Kierkegaard said nothing about a safe landing; there was only the leap, and no guarantee of solid ground beyond it.”
― The Religious Case Against Belief
― The Religious Case Against Belief
“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They openly see its roles as theatrical, its styles as poses, its clothing costumes, its rules conventional, its crises arranged, its conflicts performed and its metaphysics ideological.”
― Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
― Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
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