Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system. Indeed, confusing people a little bit is beneficial — it is good for you and good for them. For an application of the point in daily life, imagine someone extremely punctual and predictable who comes home at exactly six o’clock every day for fifteen years. You can use his arrival to set your watch. The fellow will cause his family anxiety if he is barely a few minutes late. Someone with a slightly more volatile — hence unpredictable — schedule, with, say, a half-hour variation, won’t do so.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

"Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart."

Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

Try to build bridges of understanding. Don’t build higher barriers of misunderstanding.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.