John Dryden Quotes

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.

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

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

Justice is the soul of the universe.