Descending Order

Famous quotes containing the words descending and/or order:

“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)