Collector Quote by Walter Benjamin

“All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.”

— David Bohm

“If a defining characteristic of the modern world is disorder, then the most fundamental act of resistance is to establish order.”

— Rod Dreher

“If we permit our imagination to traverse the obscure regions of possibility, we may doubtless imagine, according to the complexion of our minds, that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments…

— William Gibson

“For the party of order, disorder has always had its uses.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“What then is this harmony, this order that you maintain to have required for its establishment, what it needs not for its maintenance, the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn how little the cleverest and most…

— Isaiah Berlin

“If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all other orders.”

— David Lewis-Williams

“I venture to suggest this solution to the ancient problem: The Library is unlimited and cyclical. If an eternal traveler were to cross it…

— José Borges

“More than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.”

— Joseph Brodsky

“this preoccupation with order, control,”

— Richard Rohr

“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.”

— Graham Greene