When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind
It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
