quotations about order
One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
DEAN KOONTZ
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Order is what exists before you start arranging things.
MARTY RUBIN
attributed, The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
If there be any beauty and comeliness in order, where should we more expect to find it than in Divine government, and in the conduct and management of the affairs of the supreme and celestial kingdom.
J. HOWE
attributed, Day's Collacon
When I leave this world, I hope to enter a world of order.
RICHARD HOOKER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Is not to meditate to deepen oneself in Order?
PAUL VALERY
Dialogue of the Tree
Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
"The Creation of the World", Lay Sermons
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
EDMUND BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
ROBERT VENTURI
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
ROBERT JORDAN
Lord of Chaos
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.
STANISLAW LEM
Highcastle: A Remembrance
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.
HORACE WALPOLE
letter, January 19, 1777
Order renders all things easy.
MARTIAL
attributed, Day's Collacon
In human doings and human productions, we see everywhere manifestations of order; well-ordered social regulations make a constitution and a police; well-ordered words make good writing; well-ordered facts make science. Disorder, on the other hand, makes nothing at all, but unmakes everything; an ill-ordered social condition is decline, revolution, or anarchy.
E. FOSTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Better trust a horse without a bridle than a discourse without order.
THEOPHRASTUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
Order lives in chaos.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Let all things be done decently and in order.
PAUL OF TARSUS
1 Corinthians, 14:40
Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
The Fall of the Towers
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune