The one whoknows he is confused is not that confused. ~Zhuangzi
Confusion (from Latinconfusĭo, -ōnis, noun of action fromconfundere "to pour together", or "to mingle together" also "to confuse") is the state of being bewildered or unclear in one’smind about something.
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
If we seek theliberation of thepeople by means of alie, we will surely growconfused, go astray, and lose sight of ourobjective, and if we have anyinfluence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well — in otherwords, we will be acting in thespirit of reaction and to itsbenefit.
Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!
Gratitude unlocks the fullness oflife. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion toclarity. It can turn ameal into afeast, a house into a home, a stranger into afriend.
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity,lest all things Be held unalterable!
Bertolt Brecht, inThe Exception and the Rule (1937), Prologue
Times of greatcalamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottestfurnace. The brightest thunder-bolt iselicited from the darkeststorm.
Should feel happy, should feel glad I'm alive and it can't be bad But back on planetEarth they shatter the illusion The world's going 'round in a state of confusion
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good atheart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion,misery anddeath.
We are confused. Only by admitting our confusion can we begin to build something new.
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz “Nine Suggestions For Radicals, or Lessons From the Gulf War” in The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
For almost a quarter of a century the affairs of theworld and itsideas have been in indescribable confusion. In most cases the confusion of ideas is manifest without the aid ofpolemic orcontroversy. It is simpleevidence of thechaotic state of the world.
We will never be brought to confusion, even in such a baffling and muddled world as ours, if we have a faith in aGod oflove as the ultimatepower in theuniverse.The words "God is love" have this deepmeaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment ofdespair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour ofgrief andbereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... nothealing, notcuring... that is afriend who cares.
In anyelection, only a percentage of thepeople vote. Those who can't vote because ofage or other disqualifications,and those who don't vote because ofconfusion,apathy, ordisgust at a Tweedledum-Tweedledummer choice can hardly be said to have any voice in the passage of thelaws which govern them. Nor can theindividuals as yet unborn, who will be ruled by those laws in thefuture.
If the Great Way perishes there willmorality andduty. Whencleverness andknowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty andlove. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
