Chess Quote by Carlos Castaneda

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental…

— Vladimir Kramnik

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring…

— Robert Irwin

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He…

— Thorstein Veblen

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

— Bruce Lee

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

— Lu Yen-hsun

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way…

— Richard Reti

“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate…

— Richard Reti

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

— Jose Raul Capablanca