Norbert Wiener book The Human Use of Human Beings
XI. Language, Confusion, and Jam. p. 193
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
“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.”
Source: Jamesh A. Leit, George Whalley Symboles Dans la Vie Et Dans L'art http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pRZEKhofl_gC&pg=PA29, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1987, p. 29
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the d…" by Yehudi Menuhin?
Yehudi Menuhin41
American violinist and conductor 1916–1999Related quotes
“The reign of chaos is over. He has imposed order. Knives cut again”
Virginia Woolf book The Waves
section IV
The Waves (1931)
Context: Now,’ said Neville, ‘my tree flowers. My heart rises. All oppression is relieved. All impediment is removed. The reign of chaos is over. He has imposed order. Knives cut again.’ [... ]
‘Here is Percival,’ said Bernard, ‘[... ] We [... ] now come nearer; and shuffling closer on our perch in this restaurant where everybody’s interests are at variance, and the incessant passage of traffic chafes us with distractions, and the door opening perpetually its glass cage solicits us with myriad temptations and offers insults and wounds to our confidence — sitting together here we love each other and believe in our own endurance.
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 59-60
Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
Context: The Orderer, whose core issue is control, splits us into Controller and Out-of-Control selves, tells us "Don't Feel", and generates anxiety, rigidity, and addictions. The Orderer seduces us with the belief that order can be imposed from without, that the answer to chaos is more rigid order.
Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 1, The World We Have, p. 22.
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Writers on Themselves (1986)
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Ueberhaupt aber bin ich allmälig der Meinung geworden, daß der erwähnte Nutzen der Kathederphilosophie von dem Nachtheil überwogen werde, den die Philosophie als Profession der Philosophie als freier Wahrheitsforschung, oder die Philosophie im Auftrage der Regierung der Philosophie im Auftrage der Natur und der Menschheit bringt.
Sämtliche Werke, Bd. 5, p. 151, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 139
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Philosophy in the Universities
Yasunari Kawabata book The Master of Go
Source: The Master of Go (1951), Ch. 38, p. 164.
Context: That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a harmony of music. Everything is lost when suddenly a false note is struck, or one party in a duet suddenly launches forth on an eccentric flight of his own. A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary.