Quotes About Order And Disorder

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

Paul Ricoeur

#2. 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

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

Delmore Schwartz

#4. Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Paul Valery

#5. 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

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

Orson Scott Card

#7. Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

Ayelet Waldman

#8. There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Albert Camus

#9. What we call disorder or chaos might actually be order, if order is seen as a random distribution and not as a static, idealized condition.

William Lanouette

#10. If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

Wilfred Bion

#11. Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

Alexander Berkman

#12. One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#14. Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.

Fairfield Porter

#15. A creative period in art is
determined by the order of a particular style applied to the disorder of a particular time. It gives form and
formulas to contemporary passions.

Albert Camus

#16. The line between disorder and order lies in logistics ...

Sun Tzu

#17. Virtue gives birth to tranquility, tranquility to leisure, leisure to disorder, disorder to ruin ... and similarly from ruin, order is born, from order virtue, from virtue, glory and good fortune.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#18. As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

Jean Piaget

#19. 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

#20. Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

Samuel Johnson

#21. The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest.

Paul Theroux

#22. The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.

Freeman Dyson

#23. To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man's thinking and doing.

Josef Albers

#24. Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. Order drives one inward, and disorder outward, and between both, conscience has a chance to rediscover itself.

Robin Sacredfire

#26. Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

Richard Rohr

#27. When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

Aaron Siskind

#28. To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Emil Ruder

#29. Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

Mac Barnett

#30. The professional will not tolerate disorder ... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

Steven Pressfield

#31. Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Eliphas Levi

#32. He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game.

Sheri S. Tepper

#33. Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#34. Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.

James C. Dobson

#35. If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

#36. Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Tony Blair

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

Wallace Stevens

#38. Every disorder is the beginning of new and higher order.

George Sorbane

#39. It appears that there are two different 'mechanisms' by which orderly events can be produced: the 'statistical mechanism' which produces 'order from disorder' and the new one, producing 'order from order'.

Erwin Schrodinger

#40. Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Thomas Griffith

#41. 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

#42. For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.

Thomas Mann

#43. Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.

Hildegard Hamm-Brucher

#44. Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.

Walter Benjamin

#45. From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: Why it's nothing at all but pure water!

Rebecca Goldstein

#46. War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Walter Raleigh

#47. Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

Marcus Aurelius

#48. Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.

Edward Thomson

#49. It is as though God said, You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

John Ruskin

#51. If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.

Walter Isaacson

#52. The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky.

Ursula Nordstrom

#53. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Tom Robbins

#54. I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

P.D. James

#55. What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.

Marquis De Sade

#56. Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.

Henry Grunwald