#chaos

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#chaos #crystallize #forms #i #i believe

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#dispenses #facts #into #itself #makes

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#europe #lights #nothing #torch #war

Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos. ↗

— Alan Moore

#chaos #fix #age

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184) ↗

— Alain de Botton

#building #chaos #complexity #order #architecture

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#compatibility #continuity #creates #disjointed #divergent

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine. ↗

— Robert Moses

#chaos #divine #evidence #finds #further

Order is what exists before you start arranging things. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#chaos #order #beauty

I hoped that she knew the truth--that it wasn't her fault, or my fault, or even his fault. No matter how many times I wanted to believe it was. This was my life, and this is how it was ending. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful #chaos #death #love #beauty