“Without chaos there would be no creation, no structure and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the process that establishes those patterns. Without this creative self-organizing force, the universe would be devoid of biological life, the birth of stars and galaxies—everything we have come to know.”

“[S]elf-organization [is] the appearance of structure or pattern without an external agent imposing it.”

“Decentralization without structure is chaos.”

“Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos.”

“As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.”

“I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on. ”

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”

“Without realizing it, [the architect] had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.”

“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”

“Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.”