Quotes About Chaos

For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.

Claro está que vivir no es más que el caos de la existencia, y más aún: es el afán loco y erróneo de ir desmantelando instante a instante la existencia hasta ver restaurado el caos inicial..

living is merely the chaos of existence...

Politics, too, is a second-order chaotic system. Many people criticise Sovietologists for failing to predict the 1989 revolutions and castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011. This is unfair. Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts.

humans suffer from insufficient data, from faulty programming (genetic and cultural), from muddled definitions, and from the chaos of life.

If you told people in the Middle Ages that within a few centuries God will be dead, they would have been horrified. 'How can we live without God? Who will give life meaning and protect us from chaos?' Looking

In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore. So considering everything that is happening in our chaotic world, what should we focus on?

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

In Lima, the only birds you'll hear singing are the cars honking.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist "chaos" of the painting, asked Picasso: "Did you do this?" Picasso calmly replied: "No, you did this!"

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

It was the 1990s, and the world was a mess.

Parvana found it all very confusing.

The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.

for all I told myself, I didn't just make my living this way, and it wasn't about justice; I seemed to need the chaos other people brought me so I could make a pattern from it, establish the connections they couldn't see themselves. Not from envy, but from need

Every great change is preceded by chaos

Cuando pones tu atención en lo incierto y eres testigo de ello, mientras esperas la solución con expectativas de que ésta salga del caos y la confusión, entonces el resultado es algo fabuloso y emocionante.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

I do not believe that a violent imitation of the horrors of our times is the concern of poetry. Horrors are taken for granted. Disorder is ordinary. People in general take more and more 'in their stride'--hides grow thicker. I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a social function, it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Only out of Chaos are born Brilliant Dancing Stars and Ingenius Illuminating Inventions.