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Quotes about Order


Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

Hesiod

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

Epictetus

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Marcus Aurelius

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Marcus Aurelius

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

Alfonso X (the Wise)

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Set thine house in order.

Old Testament

Let all things be done decently and in order.

New Testament

On our earth we can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order to love.

Ice stood for order. Order too had melted.

Clean up, clear up, try to restore scholarly order, meaning tolerated disorder

The Genius is the wild-haired flower of dissidence; he rejects established order and smashes all its images.

He (James Joyce) is a modern novelist who has equipped our minds with the words and symbols we need in order to understand the contemporary world, and he will still be waiting to help when the fearsome future rolls in

There are plays to be written, images of order and beauty to be coaxed out of wrack, filth, sin, chaos

I am old enough to know that the only self-evident duty is to that image of order we all carry in our brains. That the keeping of chaos under with stern occasional kicks or permanent tough floorboards is man's duty, and that all the rest is solemn hypocrite's words to justify self-interest.

To emboss a stamp of order on time's flux is an impossibility I must make possible through my art, such as it is

The universe exists and somebody had to make it. The whole complex movement of the universe represents order. The Creator loves order and hates chaos. Virtue is order. Sin is chaos ... The sinner often doesn't understand the extent to which he destroys order ... The soul dedicated to order joins the ultimate divine order

All memories are disordered. The truth, if not mathematical, is what we think we remember

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Henry Miller

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to en joy ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher

In order to see birds its is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Robert Lynd

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Montaigne

In order to see birds its is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Robert Lynd

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cambridge philosopher

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

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