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All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Cyrus' Garden
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
GOETHE, Conversations with Goethe
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
CARL JUNG, "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"
Art ... is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM, interview, July 5, 2005
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.
HORACE WALPOLE, letter, Jan. 19, 1777
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
ROBERT VENTURI, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, Dominations and Powers
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
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