“Every thought resembles play.”

Take, for example, the following phrase of Adorno: “Every 
thought resembles play.” For Adorno, in order to think about things, one 
must do so for the sake of the pleasure that comes from the movement, in and 
of itself, of one’s thought. Understanding something can occur only through 
“an element of exaggeration, of over-shooting the object, of self-detachment 
from the weight of the factual.”