Force Quote by Michele Cassou

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

“To be in “play” in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless…

— Fernando Flores

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.

— Hugo Rahner

I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For…

— Ian Bogost

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do…

— Ian Bogost

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

— Ian Bogost

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

— Greg McKeown

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what…

— Ian Bogost

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

— Dallas Willard