Famous quotes containing the words chaos and/or gods:
“Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)