Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

The nation’s priority is stability.

In the affairs of men, there always appears to be a need for at least two things simultaneously, which, on the face of it, seem to be incompatible and to exclude one another. We always need both freedom and order

Education … is the only answer to the always pressing question … of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

Outer order contributes to inner calm.

You can't chop down a symmetry

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

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

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.