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Confusion (from Latin confusĭo, -ōnis, noun of action from confundere "to pour together", or "to mingle together" also "to confuse") is the state of being bewildered or unclear in one’s mind about something.

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• Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
  • Anonymous, in First Epistle of Peter 2:6 (traditionally attributed to Saint Peter); this starts one of the passages through which the Society of Friends indicate divine sanction of the universal priesthood of all believers.

• When time itself shall be no more,
  And all things in confusion hurl'd,
  Music shall then exert it's power,
  And sound survive the ruins of the world
  • Joseph Addison, in Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692)

• 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.
  • Joseph Addison, in a translation of Horace, Odes, Book III, ode iii.

• If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and lose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well — in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.
  • Mikhail Bakunin, in God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)

• 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, in The Exception and the Rule (1937), Prologue

• Should feel happy, should feel glad
  I'm alive and it can't be bad
  But back on planet Earth they shatter the illusion
  The world's going 'round in a state of confusion
  • Ray Davies, in "State of Confusion" on State of Confusion (1983) by The Kinks

• Lyin' awake in a cold, cold sweat
  Am I overdrawn, am I going in debt?
  It gets worse, the older that you get
  No escape from the state of confusion

  I'm in
  State of confusion
  I'm in

  • Ray Davies, in "State of Confusion" on State of Confusion (1983) by The Kinks

• We will never be brought to confusion, even in such a baffling and muddled world as ours, if we have a faith in a God of love as the ultimate power in the universe. The words "God is love" have this deep meaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.
  • Halford E. Luccock, in "Keeping Life Out of Confusion" (1938)

• Encyclopedic article on Confusion on Wikipedia