Chaos and order are conventionally seen as opposites

• Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance. Richard Garriott
• Chaos: A state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organisation or order. com
• Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order. Norman Spinrad
• Chaos: A state of total confusion with no order. Cambridge Dictionary
• Order: A regular or harmonious arrangement. Merriam Webster

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Order has a regular pattern while chaos has none

• Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. C. Escher

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Often there appears to be a battle between chaos and order…

• In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. John Robbins

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…a battle that chaos often seems to win

• Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. Terry Pratchett

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Chaos needs order and vice versa

• What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn’t? Scott Watson
• Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde
• Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top. Stephen K. Hayes

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Some argue chaos contains a secret order…

• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Carl Jung
• I believe in deeply ordered chaos Francis Bacon
• By the 1960’s Bohm began to view chaos as a misnomer. He believed that “randomness” contains a hidden order, and that we perceive disorder only because of our limited understanding of the complexity of the processes involved. David S. Walonick, Ph.D.
• Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed. Dean Koontz
• If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words. Patricia McCormick
• Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it. Frederick Lenz

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…that is not yet perceived or deciphered

• Chaos is order yet undeciphered. José Saramago
• Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. José Saramago
• Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’ ‘accidental,’ ‘chance,’ ‘unpredictable,’ are conveniences behind which we hide our ignorance. Harlow Shapley

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Order is thinly veiled chaos and vice versa

• The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos. Toba Beta
• What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley
• It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. Douglas R. Hofstadter
• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order. Novalis

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Chaos is confused order

• Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana

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Chaos is divine order

• The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you’re seeing God clearly. Caroline Myss

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The universe is a seeming interplay of chaos and order

• As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe. Rick Riordan
• Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe. Frederick Lenz
• Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. Russell Kirk

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In our universe, order mysteriously emerges out of chaos and some call it God

• Only from chaos does order come. Janet Morris
• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. Henry Miller
• Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy. Hakim Bey
• Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. Catherine Wilson
• I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos . . . God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing. Allan Sandage
• You’ve got to operate on the premise that everything happens for a reason. That even setbacks are progress. That there is some divine sensibility to how all of this is unfolding—that there is some order to this chaos. Danielle LaPorte
• Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold. Albert Claude
• Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. Immanuel Kant
• The universe owes its existence to the emergence of order from chaos. Deepak Chopra
• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. Katherine Anne Porter
• Science cannot answer the deepest questions. As soon as you ask why there is something instead of nothing, you have gone beyond science. I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos.  There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is the explanation for the miracle of existence –why there is something instead of nothing.  Allan R. Sandage

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In fact, God is described by some as the very interplay of chaos and order

• Chaos is God’s body. Order is the Devil’s chains. John Updike
• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. Ralph Fiennes
• Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force. Frederick Lenz

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Life itself is also an interplay of order and chaos

• We live in two worlds – order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next.  In the world of chaos, things happen, we get things done, yet unpredictability persists.   In one world, we like to think we are in control.  In the other, we mingle together with increasing complexity, conflict, and uncertainty. David Spangler
• Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold. Albert Claude

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Some argue life is enlivened by chaos while order breeds sterility…

• Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force. Frederick Lenz
• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry B. Adams
• Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair. Heath Ledger

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…except when it comes to the health and duration of a civilisation

• Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. Will Durant

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Chaos is the law of nature while order is a human dream

• In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature. Order was the dream of man. Henry Adams
• The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos. Toba Beta
• Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. Frank Herbert

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As human beings, a few prefer chaos to order…

• I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order. Wislawa Szymborska
• I’m definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. Connie Nielsen

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…while most greatly prefer order and fear chaos…

• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. Leo Tolstoy
• Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. Steve Martin
• I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head. Dwight Yoakam

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…although it’s also true that the order of one is the chaos of another

• One man’s idea of perfect order is another man’s chaos. Dean Koontz

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As humans, we search hard for order in chaos…

• I’m always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I’ll take a walk outside. I think about the order and the perfection of galaxies of planets in orbit and traveling around space and thinking how chaotic the wars and divorces and riots on our planet must look from outer space. Jon Foreman
• Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls. Robert Breault

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…and we constantly strive to impose order on chaos

• Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges. Laozi
• I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness. William Makepeace Thackeray
• I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. John le Carre
• Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos. George Peabody
• We adore chaos because we love to produce order. C. Escher
• The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these. Seth
• Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives—to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind. … Once everything is written down, it’s easier to see which tasks are important and in what order to tackle them. Tasks that seem overwhelming look easier when reduced to mere lines on paper. Sasha Cagen
• I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane. Nathanael West
• We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there’s nothing but chaos. Julianne Moore

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We try to create order out of chaos through art

• Art is order, made out of the chaos of life. Saul Bellow
• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno
• For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. May Sarton
• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order. Novalis
• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. Stephen Sondheim
• Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. Robert Hayden
• But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos. Molly Haskell
• That is the creative artist – a penalty of the creative artist – wanting to make order out of chaos. Ursula Nordstrom
• Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site. Wolf Kahn
• Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. Desmond Tutu
• 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. Rowan Williams
• Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos. Rollo May
• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. Otto Dix
• The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky. Ursula Nordstrom
• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there’s a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it’s the sense of order that is important in a work of art. Alfred Brenda
• Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. Rollo May
• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there’s a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it’s the sense of order that is important in a work of art. Alfred Brendel
• Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. Rollo May
• But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat. Molly Haskell
• Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. Desmond Tutu
• Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble. Chuck Palahniuk

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We try to create order out of chaos through design

• Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos. Nita Leland

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We try to create order out of chaos through music

• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. Yehudi Menuhin

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We try to create order out of chaos through writing

• Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one’s own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with eyes and heart wide open. Through writing we declare a personal identity amid faceless anonymity. We find purpose and beauty and meaning even when the rational mind argues that none of these exist. Writing therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? Jack Heffron
• The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order – for meaning. Arthur Miller
• The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. Isabel Allende

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We try to create order out of chaos through the narratives we weave

• We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there’s nothing but chaos. Julianne Moore

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We try to create order out of chaos through numbers and mathematics

• The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world. John Maynard Keynes

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We try to create order out of chaos through law and justice

• Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos. Peter Burke
• Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. Sydney J. Harris

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We try to create order out of chaos through education

• From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education. Henry Adams

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Life is mostly chaos yet we retain faith in order

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

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Chaos must be acknowledged and experienced before it becomes order

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

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Chaos without can be banished by restoring order within

• Let a man restore order within himself, and chaos without ceases. Christian Nestell Bovee