Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 52
Source: A Short History of Decay (1949)
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 52
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 18, The Strange Man's Tale Goes on
Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
Beckmann's lecture 'Drei Briefe an eine Malerin' ('Three letters to a Woman-painter'), New York and Boston, Spring 1948; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 214
1940s
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
High Output Management
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Other
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value