“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”

— Leo Tolstoy , book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

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Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician

“Experience is also a product of chance and individual faculties… I detest greasy objectivity, and harmony, the science that finds everything in order. Carry on, my children, humanity… Science says we are the servants of nature: everything is in order, make love and bash your brains in. Carry on, my children, humanity, kind bourgeois and journalist virgins… I am against systems, the most acceptable system is on principle to have none.”

Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist

1910s, Dada Manifesto', 1918

“No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens…. spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.”

Guy Debord book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988)

““You do well. Method and order, they are everything,” replied Poirot.”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1937)

“If your faith is the foundation of all that you do, it actually enchances everything else and gives you a greater joy to experience everything else because everything is ordered properly.”

Philip Mulryne (1978) Northern Irish footballer

Source: Professional Footballer to Catholic Priest: The Story of Fr. Philip Mulryne https://www.tlcm.com.mt/2017/07/27/professional-footballer-to-catholic-priest-the-story-of-fr-philip-mulryne/ (July 2017)

“I've often lost myself,
in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“My mission, the mission of my term, is to do everything in order to rebuild hope.”

Isaac Herzog (1960) Israeli politician

Source: Isaac Herzog (2021) cited in " Israel swears in Isaac Herzog as 11th president https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/7/israel-swears-in-isaac-herzog-as-11th-president" on Aljazeera, 7 July 2021.

“God … demands everything, in order to give everything anew to him who loves Him, after that loving has truly given up all.”

Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian

Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 45

“Viewed from an evolutionary perspective, mind is not the cause of the order in nature; mind is an example of the order in nature - something to be explained rather than the explanation for everything else.”

Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)

Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 101

“Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

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