Chaos In The World 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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• Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

  Tom Barrett

  Creativity, Opportunity, Organization

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• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Order And Chaos, Score

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

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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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• 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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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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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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• 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 rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Being Yourself, Chaos, Rejecting

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Stupid, Discovery

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  M. C. Escher

  Inspirational, Life, Order

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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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• Art is the triumph over chaos.

  John Cheever

  Art, Triumph, Chaos

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Discovery, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

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• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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• My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Men, Upset, Battle

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  People, Appreciate, World

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• A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Confused, People, Appreciate

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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