50 Quotes About Order

In a world often defined by chaos and unpredictability, the concept of order stands as a beacon of balance and clarity. Whether it's the structured beauty of nature or the disciplined routines that guide our daily lives, order plays an essential role in shaping not just the physical realm but our inner landscapes as well. Quotes about order can offer us profound insights and inspiration, encouraging us to find harmony amidst the disorder. In this curated collection of 50 quotes, we delve into the wisdom of philosophers, writers, and thinkers, each offering a unique perspective on the significance of order in our lives. Join us as we explore these thought-provoking words, seeking solace and structure in their timeless wisdom.

1. “During the day, the library is a realm of order.” - Alberto Manguel

2. “If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ” - Alberto Manguel

3. “An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.” - George Mikes

4. “In einer Welt, die unübersichtlich geworden ist, wächst das Bedürfnis nach der Geordnetheit des Krippleins.” - Heribert Prantl

5. “Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.” - Orson Scott Card

6. “Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.” - José Saramago

7. “It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.” - Douglas R. Hofstadter

8. “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” - Frank Herbert

9. “From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.” - Tony Hillerman

10. “Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination.” - Jennifer Birkett

11. “Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.” - Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

12. “Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” - Henri Poincare

13. “All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.” - Julio Cortazar

14. “The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.” - Umberto Eco

15. “The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.” - Auguste Comte

16. “No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives...” - Marisha Pessl

17. “The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.” - Henry Miller

18. “Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.” - Jacques Derrida

19. “Segala hal yang dikatakan Komandan mengenai Orde adalah kebenaran yang tidak dilebih-lebihkan. Orde memang bersinonim dengan kebaikan. Orde menghargai kemajuan. Orde mencintai kehidupan. Orde bahkan mengajarkan pertobatan. Semua yang dijabarkan di dalam Kitab pada dasarnya akan berakhir pada kebahagiaan, pun setelah kematian.Akan tetapi Orde dan Kitab adalah takdir. Yang tidak dapat dibantah dan harus diterima semua orang dengan pasrah.Sama seperti penglihatanku, Orde tidak memberikan pilihan.” - Fredrik Nael

20. “-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why am I not surprised?” - Christine Feehan

21. “The order I found was the order of disorder” - William Saroyan

22. “Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.” - W.G. Sebald

23. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.” - Henri Poincare

24. “Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.” - Toba Beta

25. “Disorder created connections──that is, resonance.” - Eric Abrahamson

26. “Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.” - Walter Benjamin

27. “Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.” - George Eliot

28. “Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.” - Walter Benjamin

29. “Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” - Gustave Flaubert

30. “Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.” - Robert Jordan

31. “Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry from the contents of religion. I don't believe Einstein is tied to any religious tradition, and I rather think the idea of a personal God is entirely foreign to him.” - Wolfgang Pauli

32. “Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.” - Deepak Chopra

33. “The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.” - Toba Beta

34. “It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.” - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

35. “I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.” - Elizabeth Moon

36. “If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.” - John Muir

37. “The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write 'carte blanche for chaos.' Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings -- those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.” - Catherine Keller

38. “Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.” - Karl Pearson

39. “In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.” - Tom Robbins

40. “Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.” - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

41. “...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.” - Patricia A. McKillip

42. “Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject” - Thomas Mann

43. “Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.” - Joseph de Maistre

44. “words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.” - Seamus Heaney

45. “We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.” - Alain De Botton

46. “Too many kings can ruin an army” - Homer

47. “If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.” - Savitri Devi

48. “In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.” - James Allen

49. “Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.” - Christopher Dutton

50. “To say that a poet is justified in employing a disintegrating form in order to express a feeling of disintegration, is merely a sophistical justification for bad poetry, akin to the Whitmanian notion that one must write loose and sprawling poetry to "express" the loose and sprawling American continent. In fact, all feeling, if one gives oneself (that is, one's form) up to it, is a way of disintegration; poetic form is by definition a means to arrest the disintegration and order the feeling; and in so far as any poetry tends toward the formless, it fails to be expressive of anything.” - YVOR WINTERS