Quotes About Order

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild Bedouin sees geometric forms but doesn't understand them ; the Sunni understands them but does not admire them; the artist, finally, perceives the perfection of figures, understands beauty, and admires order and harmony.God was the Great Geometer.He geometrized heaven and earth.

Es ist nicht gut, von ›Gesetzlichkeit‹ zu reden, wo es um die Ordnung unsers christlichen Lebens, um die Treue in den gebotenen Dingen des Schriftlesens und Betens geht. Unordnung zersetzt und zerbricht den Glauben.

The highest of all occult orders which exists only in the inner world may be called the "Order of Melchizedek," although among certain nations it has other names. This Order is composed entirely of the graduates of the other Mystery Schools who have actually reached the point where they can give birch to their present selves out of their own natures, like the mysterious phoenix bird which, breaking open at death, permits a new bird to fly forth.

It does, however, form part of a wider and more profound movement of mass rebellion against the established order.

Nel mondo ha sempre regnato un ordine: sopra quelli che devono stare sopra e sotto quelli che devono stare sotto.

You're a cop aren't you? A private detective. Isn't that the same thing? The cops guarantee order. All I do is uncover disorder.

Si hay luz en el alma, habrá belleza en la persona. Si hay belleza en la persona, habrá armonía en la casa. si hay armonía en la casa, habrá orden en la nación. Si hay orden en la nación, habrá paz en el mundo." Proverbio Chino.

Perhaps instead it is a matter of an intuition on the poetic order, which establishes unexpected contact between remote elements that do not seem destined to come together. But that poem will never be written or read. I alone will hear it, incapable as I am of even humming it to myself. We are all bearers of such poems, which resist age because they are made only of time.

Sabemos bien que en cualquier sociedad el orden social y cultural gobierna la relación con la naturaleza, que nombrar es clasificar, que una soledad absoluta es impensable, que toda identidad se define en relación con una alteridad, y que lo mismo y lo otro están estrechamente ligados, asociados en el tiempo y en el espacio.

Ours is not a justice system. Ours is a legal system.

I don't hoard, exactly, but I get it. It's a response to our need and desire for purpose, order, definition, and a fortress. It's a calling that requires constant management, control, and obsessive attention.

A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain

When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host.

But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of music had, for a time at least, been born in him, Swann had regarded musical motifs as actual ideas, of another world, of another order, ideas veiled in shadow, unknown, impenetrable to the human mind, but none the less perfectly distinct from one another, unequal among themselves in value and significance.

Rose out of Chaos:

full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

In contrast, the Beautiful offers us an invitation to order, coherence and unity. When these needs are met, the soul feels at home in the world.

This is that which gives spiritual beauty and order unto the duty of prayer,—namely, the suiting of wants and supplies, of a thankful disposition and praises, of love and admiration, unto the excellencies of God in Christ, all by the wisdom of the Holy Ghost.

Even Navy's got better discipline than this.

Iconcentrated on driving for a couple of minutes, getting us out of a pod of Texans headed up the freeway in what seemed to be a test of Chaos Theory: you sensed an order in their driving, but you couldn't say exactly what it was. I could see the Toyota pickup at the head of the pack, like the lead dolphin.

The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went into each, you could wake up the next morning in some serious trouble.

Having Monday be Pizza Day subverts the natural order of things.

You know what the worst fucking part of that was," Kiva said as they headed to the door. "What?" "Motherfucker ran down jollof rice. It's not fucking banal. I was going to order that.