#confusion

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. ↗

— George Carman

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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

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It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. ↗

— Alice Miller

#been #childhood #confusion #disputed #most

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ↗

— Henry Miller

#invented #order #understood #which #word

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds. ↗

— Brian Molko

#confusion #creates #feel #i #i feel

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor