Quotes About Order

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

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.

True enough, order prevails.... What prevails is order without life. True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

The new settlement was no nearer or dearer to her than, say, America, where they said people, in order to not wear out their feet, walked on their heads.

Il mare sarebbe Dio? - No, ma è lo specchio in cui Dio si riflette. Guai a chi infrange il suo ordine e altera il ritratto dell'Onnipotente, composto dalle onde quando sono calme e si succedono regolari. Non può risultarne che una tempesta, attraverso la quale Satana troverà il suo varco.

Ecology movements are political movements for a nonviolent world order in which nature is conserved for conserving the options for survival.

Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a 'kosmos.' The Greek word means 'an equal presence of order and beauty.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

Entre rois, entre peuples, entre particuliers, le plus fort se done des droits sur le plus faible, et la même règle est suivie par les animaux, par la matière, par les èlèments, etc., de sorte que tout s'exècute dans l'univers par la violence; et cet ordre, que nous blâmons avec quelque apparance de justice, est la loi la plus gènèrale, la plus absolue, la plus immuable, et la plus ancienne de la nature.

Power alone determines the present order of the world.

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer. . . . Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

My father wore the pants in the family–at least, after the court order.

Smith strongly emphasizes that it is a fallacy to believe that our original moral perceptions of conduct are based on reason, even in those cases where general rules grow directly out of our experience and become an emergent order. These perceptions and the experience on which rules are founded are a consequence of our minds but not of reasoned thoughts:

Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'

The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.

Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.