“Paradox is the inevitable forerunner of chaos.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) American writer
The Impacted Man (p. 49)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)
The Universal Message (1958)
Context: All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.
“Paradox is the inevitable forerunner of chaos.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) American writer
The Impacted Man (p. 49)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)
“… blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.”
Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
Source: All Families are Psychotic
“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
“…in this world, often, there is nothing to praise but no one to blame…”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“On Preparing to Read Kipling”, p. 135
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 7 (p. 51)
Geoffrey Blainey (1930) Australian historian
In Our Time: The Issues and The People of Our Century (1999)