Order And Disorder Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, World

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• The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.

  Sun Tzu

  Lying, Order, Lines

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• Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

  Eliphas Levi

  Order, Awkward, Attention

  "The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled".

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• A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

  Wallace Stevens

  Order, Two, Violent

  "Connoisseur of Chaos" l. 1 (1942)

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Organization, Waiting

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Results, Stability

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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• Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

  John Milton

  Light, Order, Voice

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.94

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• Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

  Orson Scott Card

  Order, Said, Speakers

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.95, Macmillan

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• There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Struggle, Order

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.15, Vintage

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• Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Strong, Evil, Moral

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• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Teacher, Order

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• I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Atheist, Thinking

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• Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

  Paul Ricoeur

  Order, Identity, Stories

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• And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Children, Home, Tired

  Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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• My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Home, Heart, Order

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• Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Order, Roots, Profound

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• To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Order, Creative, Accepting

  Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.93, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love things that are endless, I hate them to stop. It's like order and disorder: I rather love disorder and things that move, it's a state where one gets more things done!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Beautiful, Hate, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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