Well Ordered Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under… — Mahatma Gandhi
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our… — Ignatius Loyola
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more… — George Crumb
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and… — Seneca the Younger
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is differentâ€”it is not… — Neal Stephenson
There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered… — Thomas Browne
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. — Thomas Aquinas
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of… — Pierre Trudeau
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person… — Jack Dee
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer… — William Lyon Phelps
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. — John D. Rockefeller
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can… — Baruch Spinoza
Really, doesnÂ´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even… — Ernst Junger
The people are immensely likableâ€” cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have… — Bill Bryson
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. — Edith Wharton
But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I… — Bernard Cornwell
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth:… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at… — Margaret Thatcher
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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