George Santayana Quotes

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

Life's messy.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

We live in a... chaotic world.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

The order I found was the order of disorder

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

This life is messy.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.