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“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” – James P. Carse
“It is an invariable principle of all play, finite or infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely.” – James P. Carse
“Finite players play within boundaries, infinite players play with boundaries.” – James P. Carse
“… all limitations of finite play are self-limitations.” – James P. Carse
“To account for the large gap between the actual freedom of finite players to step off the field of play at any time and the experienced necessity to stay at the struggle, we can say that as finite players we somehow veil this freedom from ourselves.” – James P. Carse
“The joyfulness of infinite play, its laughter, lies in learning to start something we cannot finish.” – James P. Carse
“True storytellers do not know their own story.” – James P. Carse
“What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.” – James P. Carse
“Infinite players are not serious actors in any story, but the joyful poets of a story that continues to originate what they cannot finish.” – James P. Carse
“There is but one infinite game.” – James P. Carse
All quotes are from Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse (1986)