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On Virginia Woolf:

"In Moments of Being (public library) — the posthumous collection of her autobiographical writings — she writes:

A great part of every day is not lived consciously. One walks, eats, sees things, deals with what has to be done; the broken vacuum cleaner; ordering dinner; writing orders to Mabel; washing; cooking dinner; bookbinding. When it is a bad day the proportion of non-being is much larger.

In her 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway — part love letter to these moments of being, part lamentation about the proportion of non-being we choose without knowing we are choosing — she locates the key to righting the ratio in “the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.”"
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/12/virginia-woolf-moments-of-being/#:~:text=In%20Moments%20of,in%20the%20light.%E2%80%9D

The Marginalian · Living Against Time: Virginia Woolf on the Art of Presence and the “Moments of Being” That Make You Who You AreIn praise of “the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.”

A quotation from William Feather

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.

William Feather (1889-1981) American publisher, author
(Attributed)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/feather-william/1479…

I mean, "chaos" is a meaning of the word, but it's not a meaning that has any relevance to social thought. Anarchy as a social philosophy has never meant "chaos" -- in fact, anarchists have typically believed in a highly organized society, just one that's organized democratically from below.
-- Noam Chomsky