Finite and Infinite Games

Finite and Infinite Games is a book by religious scholar James P. Carse. Kevin Kelly has praised it for "alter my thinking about life, the universe, and everything."

Famous quotes containing the words finite, infinite and/or games:

    “For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “So that if you would form a just judgment of what is of infinite importance to you not to be misled in,—namely, in what degree of real merit you stand ... call in religion and morality.—Look,—What is written in the law of God?—How readest thou?—Consult calm reason and the unchangeable obligations of justice and truth;Mwhat say they?”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)