Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Disorder brings about order.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

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

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

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

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful - this I find terribly alluring and captivating.