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Play Quotes by Johan Huizinga
- Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
- Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their…
- The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up…
- You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
- Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and…
- Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.
More Play Quotes
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke. — Arthur Ashe
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster