Chaos Quotes

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty...

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, p...

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal orde...

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had bee...

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we c...

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness an...

The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their god...

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and e...

–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group o...

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when y...

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...

the hinder portion scalding-house good eating Curve B in addition to the usual baths and ablutions m...

Awake,chaos:we have napped.

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal an...

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some ...

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but...

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you st...

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have ...

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she p...

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of ...

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal pape...

It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear'...

It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and re...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all...

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordin...

It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total re...

This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would lea...

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is...

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious tha...

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. Th...

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balance...

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever ...

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the wa...

Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. ...

One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact ...

the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ide...

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free ...

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human...

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to b...

The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Ru...

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ex...

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not ...

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not...

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have n...

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

Art is the triumph over chaos.

It was said in the old days that every year Thor made a circle around Middle-earth, beating back the...

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses a...

But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the...

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to t...

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has co...

And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Chang...

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos...

There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their ...

design is so important because chaos is so hard

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans pr...

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?""No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough.""Why not?""Well, ...

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is...

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by st...

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence...

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses...

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyr...

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...

Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity...

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.