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 things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.
Kid Rock

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Alain Badiou

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Horatio Nelson

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
Chuck Close

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
Sandra Cisneros

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Paul Valery

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
Jurgen Habermas