“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.” IfsKnowsBelieveHumansHas BeensMomentsAbleGamesI BelieveSportsHuman BeingsPleaseWorshipInstantHistorianHumankindGod KnowsAbsentGodlikeAppeaseAnthropologistsTransmutation Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti
“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensGoalEntrepreneurSoloAffiliation Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti
“Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.” Has BeensBeliefTroubleCapacityDevotedIdealismNaive Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti
