Backgrounds Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

— Louise Erdrich

Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest…

— Fairfield Porter

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for…

— Rudolf Arnheim

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

— Rudolf Arnheim

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Order is what exists before you start arranging things.

— Marty Rubin

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal,…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone

— Zhuangzi

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

— Nancy Pearcey