"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and……" — Carl von Clausewitz
"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."
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97 Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
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- Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
- Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light…
- Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
- It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
- War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
- Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
- Politics is the womb in which war develops.
- All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends…
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- The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered…
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