“Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order”

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order" by Tom Stoppard?
Tom Stoppard photo
Tom Stoppard 116
British playwright 1937

Related quotes

Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) photo

“The Translator has purposefully abstained from the use of any previous translation, in order to give his own view of the meaning unbiased.”

Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) (1800–1868) Anglican clergyman, scholar

The Works of Tertullian (1842), pp. xvii-xviii

William Gibson photo

“We see in order to move; we move in order to see.”

William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook photo
Barack Obama photo
Adyashanti photo

“Every human being… the way they move in live, how they act, is completely dictated by what they value.”

Adyashanti (1962) Spiritual teacher

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

George Eliot photo
Kenneth N. Waltz photo

“Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.”

Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter II, The First Image, p. 23

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Anaïs Nin photo

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Anaïs Nin photo

Related topics