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Surprise causes finite play to end; it is the reason for infinite play to continue.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Capacious
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
You can’t delve far into the question of what it means to be a finite human being, with finite time on the planet, before encountering the philosopher who was more obsessed with the subject than any other thinker: Martin Heidegger.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
The rules of an infinite game are changed to prevent anyone from winning the game and to bring as many persons as possible into the play.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons,
Sam Harris • Free Will
To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
The joyfulness of infinite play, its laughter, lies in learning to start something we cannot finish.