VI. Playing and Knowing
“For archaic man, doing and daring are power, but knowing is magical power. For him all particular knowledge is sacred knowledge—esoteric and wonder-working wisdom, because any knowing is directly related to the cosmic order itself.”
The riddle-solving and death-penalty motif features strongly in the chapter.
- Greek tradition: the story of the seers Chalcas and Mopsos.
Read more about this topic: Homo Ludens (book)
Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or knowing:
“Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;
If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
By playing it to me with so sour a face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Just when I’d stopped opening doors
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours.”
—Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)