ORDER QUOTES
quotations about order
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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
Order is the framer of great things.
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
All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal -- a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world -- two snake-pits.
One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
DEAN KOONTZ, Dark Rivers of the Heart
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
STEPHEN HAWKING, A Brief History of Time
Order lives in chaos.
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, Blood Meridian
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
JOHN UPDIKE, Rabbit Redux
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
ALAN LIGHTMAN, Einstein's Dreams
The friend of order has made half his way to virtue.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
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