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Intelligence alone is not cou...

Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

We must evaluate the politica...

We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

With uncertainty in one scale...

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

War is nothing but a continua...

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

The more physical the activit...

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

A prince or general can best ...

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Friction is the only concept ...

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

In War more than anywhere els...

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

War is an act of violence pus...

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Great things alone can make a...

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

The invention of gunpowder an...

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

In war everything is simple, ...

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

If we do not learn to regard ...

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

War is a conflict of great in...

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

The political object is the g...

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

If you entrench yourself behi...

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

There are times when the utmo...

There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Obstinacy is a fault of tempe...

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

If we read history with an op...

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Everything in war is very sim...

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

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