All the limitations of finite play are self-limitations.

Once under way, warfare and acts of heroism have all the appearance of necessity, but that appearance is but a veil over the often complicated maneuvers by which the antagonists have arranged their conflict with each other.

Because we make use of machinery in the belief we can increase the range of our freedom, and instead only decrease it, we use machines against ourselves.

If the rules of a finite game are unique to that game it is evident that the rules may not change in the course of play—else a different game is being played.

A slave can have life only by giving it away. “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life” (Jesus).

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Human freedom is not a freedom over nature; it is the freedom to be natural,

If it is the winners who are presently visible, it is the losers who are invisibly past.

The myth of Jesus is exemplary, but not necessary. No myth is necessary. There is no story that must be told. Stories do not have a truth that someone needs to reveal, or someone needs to hear. It is part of the myth of Jesus that it makes itself unnecessary; it is a narrative of the word becoming flesh, of language entering history; a narrative of