quotations about chaos
Now you see that the hope and the desire of returning to the first state of chaos is like the moth to the light, and that the man who with constant longing awaits with joy each new springtime, each new summer, each new month and new year--deeming that the things he longs for are ever too late in coming--does not perceive that he is longing for his own destruction.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
attributed, The Origins and History of Consciousness
Chaos, Chaos, infinite wonder! Wheeling and reeling on wavering wings...
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
"A Song of Geology", Musa Burschicosa: A Book of Songs for Students and University Men
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
WILHELM REICH
The Function of the Organism
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Redux
A striking feature of the orderliness of chaos is that many of its geometric aspects are governed by fractals, and many of is physical aspects are governed by fractal geometry.
BENOIT MANDELBROT
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science
It was her chaos that made her beautiful.
ATTICUS
Love Her Wild
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities -- the political, the religious, the educational authorities -- who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing -- forming in our minds -- their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.
TIMOTHY LEARY
How to Operate Your Brain
All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Lost Souls
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
attributed, Rightsize ... Right Now!
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
HORACE MANN
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!
DAVID J. SCHOW
The Crow
The thing about chaos, is that while it disturbs us, it too, forces our hearts to roar in a way we secretly find magnificent.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Remington Typewriter Poetry
Chaos is an angel who fell in love with a demon.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Remington Typewriter Poetry
Like to know what Chaos is like? Catch a cat after a lightning strike.
GREG HAMERTON
Second Sight
Don't you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men?
DAVE EGGERS
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
In this mess,
precious dust
Gather strength, softness
Guard the gods
guard the judges
Din of geometric chaos
STEREOLAB
"Dear Marge", Margerine Eclipse
Captain Chaos
Jonesin' sweet desperation
Captain Chaos
So young, strung out n' numb
GILBY CLARKE
"Captain Chaos", Hangover
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Dominations and Powers
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
The Time Traveler's Wife
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
B. F. SKINNER
Walden Two