Order Quotes

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.

An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Discipline must be maintained.

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

The breach of customIs breach of all.

There is a law in each well-ordered nationTo curb those raging appetites that areMost disobedient and refractory.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peaceBy manifold illusion.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.