Chaos Quotes - Page 33

• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.

  Khaled Mashal

  Middle East, Election Results, Want

  YouTube Channel "Al Jazeera English "/"Talk to Jazeera - Khaled Meshaal - 05 Mar 08 - Pt. 1", www.youtube.com. March 06, 2008.

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• Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Order, Revolutionary

  Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”

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• Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  "Manifesto Proletkult" by Theo van Doesburg, 1923.

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• We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

  Said Seyam

  Law, Demand, Ends

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• Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

  Bentley Little

  Life, Real, World

  Bentley Little (2003). “The Policy”, Signet

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• Space , time , mass, and energy originate from Chaos , have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Agency, Space, Energy

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.52, Weiser Books

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• In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Creating, Magic, Tools

  Peter J. Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.75, Weiser Books

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• In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Children, Philosophical, Mind

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• I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Night, Agony, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Dream, Crazy, Mirrors

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• I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.

  Brandon Boyd

  Skins, Stronger, Looks

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• Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

  John Carroll

  Men, Boredom, Tangled

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis

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• Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mean, Buddhism

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• The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Order, Mind

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• Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, History

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• Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Plato, Buddhism, Science

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• Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Enlightened

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• Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Information Processing, Analysis

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• At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Order, People

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• Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Perfection, Today

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• You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

  Mac O'Grady

  Golf, Serenity, Adrenaline

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