Order And Chaos Quotes

• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

  Jose Saramago

  Order, Perspective, Waiting

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  Carl Jung

  Thoughtful, Order, Secret Love

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

  Will Durant

  Order, Civilization, Liberty

  "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers". Book by Will Durant, 1926.

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• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

  Henry Adams

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  M. C. Escher

  Inspirational, Life, Order

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• We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next. In the world of chaos, things happen, we get things done, yet unpredictability persists. In one world, we like to think we are in control. In the other, we mingle together with increasing complexity, conflict, and uncertainty.

  David Spangler

  Thinking, Order, Two

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• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Score, Chaos Theory

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Peace, Creativity, Thinking

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

  Henry Adams

  Life, Change, Order

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 16 (1907)

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• It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Science, Order, Eerie

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• Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

  George Santayana

  Order, Names, Confusion

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.33, Transaction Publishers

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• Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Cute, Order

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

  George Leonard

  Life, Adversity, Order

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• What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

  Kerry Thornley

  Crazy, Order, Mad

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• Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Knights, Order

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

  Ian Stewart

  Beauty, Art, Views

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• In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

  John Robbins

  Order, Battle, Doe

  John Robbins (2010). “The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less”, p.220, Ballantine Books

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• Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

  John Marshall

  Differences, Democracies Have, Order

  John Marshall (1836). “The life of George Washington: commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States”, p.447

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