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Quotes About Chaos

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.
~ Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
Ich sage euch: man muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.
~ Nietzsche, Friedrich
It was being convulsed by a cry, a command to break our prison bars of morality, shame, and hope, and turn ourselves over to, lose ourselves in, become one with, the fearful, enticing Lover who lies in wait in the darkness and whom we call God. I felt that love, death, and God were one and the same. As the years went by, I became even more deeply aware of this terrifying Trinity that waits in ambush in the abyss of chaos - in the abyss and in our hearts.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Yeah, it's a bum rap, basically?it's like referring to Soviet-style bureaucracy as socialism, or any other term of discourse that's been given a second meaning for the purpose of ideological warfare. I mean, chaos is a meaning of the word, but it's not a meaning that has any relevance to social thought. Anarchy as a social philosophy has never meant chaos?in fact, anarchists have typically believed in a highly organized society, just one that's organized democratically from below.
~ Noam Chomsky
Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos." His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. "Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance.
~ Nora Roberts
try to avoid panic because it leads to chaos, which leads to accidents. You get hurt that way.
~ Nora Roberts
remembered in bits and pieces. A storm at sea, drowning waves swamping
~ Nora Roberts
Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos." His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. "Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance. The way they did in Salem, three hundred years ago.
~ Nora Roberts
Organism is opposed to chaos, to disintegration, to death, as message is to noise. To describe an organism, we do not try to specify each molecule in it, and catalogue it bit by bit, but rather to answer certain questions about it which reveal its pattern: a pattern which is more significant and less probable as the organism becomes, so to speak, more fully an organism.
~ Norbert Wiener
We have already seen that certain organisms, such as man, tend for a time to maintain and often even to increase the level of their organization, as a local enclave in the general stream of increasing entropy, of increasing chaos and de-differentiation. Life is an island here and now in a dying world.
~ Norbert Wiener
which is a fancy way of saying that nature tends to bring things to disorder.
~ Norman L. Geisler
The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.
~ Chuck Klosterman
he was forty bushels beyond bamboozled.
~ Chuck Klosterman
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What would Tyler Durden do?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everything is still falling apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.
~ Chuck Palahniuk