quotations about order
Let all things be done decently and in order.
PAUL OF TARSUS
1 Corinthians, 14:40
The order of the Eternal manifests itself in the sun which rises and the heavens which fall.
JENS BAGGESEN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Dominations and Powers
One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
DEAN KOONTZ
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
LE CORBUSIER
attributed in his obituary, New York Times, 1965
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
Order is the framer of great things.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Order is what exists before you start arranging things.
MARTY RUBIN
attributed, The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge
Is not to meditate to deepen oneself in Order?
PAUL VALERY
Dialogue of the Tree
Order lives in chaos.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
ROBERT JORDAN
Lord of Chaos
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
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
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
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
EDMUND BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Order renders all things easy.
MARTIAL
attributed, Day's Collacon
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
ROBERT VENTURI
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
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 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