Order Quotes - page 8

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. View quote
Virginia Woolf
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. View quote
Carl Jung
One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go. View quote
Heinrich Böll
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Read in order to live. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand. View quote
Anselm of Canterbury
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. View quote
Jim Morrison
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. View quote
Vera Brittain
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. (Lewis Mumford)
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry, Propriety, and Economy. View quote
Vitruvius
In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it. View quote
Vitruvius
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. View quote
J. William Fulbright
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. View quote
Thomas Sowell
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. View quote
Salvador Dalí
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
In order to change a way of thinking, it is necessary to undergo profound internal changes and to witness profound external changes, especially in the performance of our duties and obligations to society. (Che Guevara)
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
The world of immediate experience-the world in which we find ourselves living-must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. View quote
Herbert Marcuse