Play (n.) is, along with fairytales, not something belonging only to childhood. We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth.
Play (n.) is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
Play (n.) and fairy tales (n.) never leave us: we give them other names, but the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth — a poet should portray a man of two hundred who truly lives without them.
Play (n.) is the useless made the ideal of him who is overfull of strength — the "childlikeness" of God, a child playing.
Play (n.) is the only way Nietzsche knows of associating with great tasks.
Play (n.) is what lets necessity and antagonism pair themselves into a work of art.
Play (n.) is the only way I know of associating with great tasks — a sign of greatness; a gloomy mien or a harsh tone in the throat is an objection to a man, how much more to his work.
Play (n.) as artists and children engage in it is the only coming-to-be and passing away in this world without any moral additive, in forever equal innocence, and so plays the ever-living fire.