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
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
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
It was her chaos that made her beautiful.
ATTICUS
Love Her Wild
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
attributed, Rightsize ... Right Now!
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
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
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
WILHELM REICH
The Function of the Organism
Like to know what Chaos is like? Catch a cat after a lightning strike.
GREG HAMERTON
Second Sight
Captain Chaos
Jonesin' sweet desperation
Captain Chaos
So young, strung out n' numb
GILBY CLARKE
"Captain Chaos", Hangover
Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!
DAVID J. SCHOW
The Crow
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Redux
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?
Chaos is an angel who fell in love with a demon.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Remington Typewriter Poetry
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 breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
B. F. SKINNER
Walden Two
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
The Time Traveler's Wife
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Dominations and Powers
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
When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that in it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.
JOHN BANVILLE
Doctor Copernicus