Variant: The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature
Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar <br class="br">1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837) <br class="br">Variant: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
“The chain of causes comes down from the creation of the world.”
A prima descendit origine mundi
causarum series.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book VI, line 611 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin book The Phenomenon of Man
The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Context: If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form.... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
Barnett Newman (1905–1970) American artist
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 125
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) Hungarian writer
Liquidation (2003)
Context: But I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone. If you have a concept of the world, if you have not yet forgotten all that has happened, that you have a world at all, it is writing that has created that for you, and ceaselessly goes on creating it; Logos, the invisible spider’s thread that holds our lives together.
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: Esoteric Christianity: Or, The Lesser Mysteries (1914), Chapter XIV. Revelation, p. 375
L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
"Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty", Strike-The-Root (Feb. 18, 2015) http://www.strike-the-root.com/chaos-gets-bad-rap-importance-of-chaology-to-liberty
