Chaos Quotes

-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life.

True peace is when you can be happy in the midst of chaos.

a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.

When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra.

It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not...

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail

Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease?

I mean every word of my divine chaos.

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

Focus on what's next, not what came before.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Without a little chaos life will be dull, unbeautiful, for we have been trained not to align with simplicity for too long.

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace.

Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.

The chaos lies all within.

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.

At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Here's to those who love the quiet, but thrive in chaos.

I wish I could stop time and keep you out of danger.She turned and placed a kiss on the palm of his hand.Without the danger, we never would have met.

Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.

May feel like you're falling', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you.

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.