“The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.”
Jamal-al-Din Afghani (1837–1897) Political activist and Islamic ideologist
As quoted in Jamāḷ al-Dīn al-Afghāni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
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