Chess Zen

“In the beginning of the game ignore the search for combinations, abstain from violent moves. Aim for small advantages, accumulate them, and only after having attained these ends search for the combination - and then with all the power of will and intellect, because then the combination must exist, however deeply hidden.”

-- Emanuel Lasker

[Source: Irving Chernev, "Logical Chess: Move by Move"]

Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes is an English philosopher of the 17th century, a devout monarchist. He might thus appear outdated, but the music of his reason is not bounded by time.

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“I am one of the common people, and one of that almost infinite number of men, for whose welfare Kings and other sovereigns were by God ordained: for God made Kings for the people, and not people for Kings.”

-- Thomas Hobbes, “A Dialogue of the Common Law”

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Quote

“It seems you have a choice. Either the world is crazy or you are.”

-- “American Gods” (2016) movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman novel