Quotes
Quotes about Order
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where tho' all things differ, all agree.
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.
As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness.
Peace has no borders.
It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
