Source: The Name of the Wind
Quotes about order
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Ann M. Martin
(1955) American writer of children's literature
Source: Dawn Saves the Planet
Andy Andrews
(1959) author and corporate speaker
Source: The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters
“God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”
Oswald Chambers
(1874–1917) British missionary
Source: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
“Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”
Georges Bataille
(1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: Literature and Evil
Charles Bukowski
book
Factotum
Variant: Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Source: Factotum
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
Henry Adams
(1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
Jean Cocteau
(1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: Le Potomak : Précédé d'un Prospectus 1916
“In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first”
Gary L. Francione
(1954) American legal scholar
Thich Nhat Hanh
(1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
Gretchen Rubin
(1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Giordano Bruno
(1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
"Introductory Epistle : Argument of the Third Dialogue"
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)
Context: After it hath been seen how the obstinate and the ignorant of evil disposition are accustomed to dispute, it will further be shewn how disputes are wont to conclude; although others are so wary that without losing their composure, but with a sneer, a smile, a certain discreet malice, that which they have not succeeded in proving by argument — nor indeed can it be understood by themselves — nevertheless by these tricks of courteous disdain they pretend to have proven, endeavouring not only to conceal their own patently obvious ignorance but to cast it on to the back of their adversary. For they dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”
René Descartes
(1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
Bette Davis
(1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
From Davis' running commentary in Whitney Stine's Mother Goddam https://books.google.com/books?id=kxs_AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Attempt+the+impossible+in+order+to+improve+your+work.%22 (1974), p. 123 ISBN 0-8015-5184-6
“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”
Robert Frost
(1874–1963) American poet
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
April 6, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. III: Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being
“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
Jean Genet
(1910–1986) French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
Variant: People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It'shard. If God said in plain language, "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”
Gail Giles
(1955) American writer
Source: Right Behind You
“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.”
Source: The Throne of Fire
Elisabeth Elliot
(1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“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
Ilona Andrews
American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
Francis Bacon
(1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Source: Gilead
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
Jim Morrison
(1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Obituary for physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (Nachruf auf Ernst Mach), Physikalische Zeitschrift 17 (1916), p. 101
1910s
Context: How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there not some more valuable work to be done in his specialty? That's what I hear many of my colleagues ask, and I sense it from many more. But I cannot share this sentiment. When I think about the ablest students whom I have encountered in my teaching — that is, those who distinguish themselves by their independence of judgment and not just their quick-wittedness — I can affirm that they had a vigorous interest in epistemology. They happily began discussions about the goals and methods of science, and they showed unequivocally, through tenacious defense of their views, that the subject seemed important to them.
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. [Begriffe, welche sich bei der Ordnung der Dinge als nützlich erwiesen haben, erlangen über uns leicht eine solche Autorität, dass wir ihres irdischen Ursprungs vergessen und sie als unabänderliche Gegebenheiten hinnehmen. ] Thus they might come to be stamped as "necessities of thought," "a priori givens," etc. The path of scientific progress is often made impassable for a long time by such errors. [Der Weg des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts wird durch solche Irrtümer oft für längere Zeit ungangbar gemacht. ] Therefore it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analysing long-held commonplace concepts and showing the circumstances on which their justification and usefulness depend, and how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. Thus their excessive authority will be broken. They will be removed if they cannot be properly legitimated, corrected if their correlation with given things be far too superfluous, or replaced if a new system can be established that we prefer for whatever reason.
Source: Eleven Minutes
Confucius
(-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Great Learning
Context: The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
David Deida
(1958) American writer
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
Paulo Coelho
(1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 78.
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
Brian Tracy
(1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life….”
Garrison Keillor
(1942) American radio host and writer
Umberto Eco
(1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Variant: A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie.
Source: Trattato di semiotica generale (1975); [A Theory of Semiotics] (1976)
“Surrender… sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed”
Rick Warren
(1954) Christian religious leader
“Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package?”
Ilona Andrews
American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
Source: The History of Love
Sara Zarr
(1970) American children's writer
Source: Sweethearts
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
John Adams
(1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset : From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431
Attributed
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
Jean-Luc Godard
(1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
Variant: A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Variant: It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 6
Context: It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: On Peace
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
Wyndham Lewis
(1882–1957) writer and painter
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson