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Carl Von Clausewitz Inspirational Quotes (81)

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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
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Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
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War is the province of danger.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
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Blood is the price of victory
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Battles decide everything.
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...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
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Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
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Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
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Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
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Knowledge must become capability.
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To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
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The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
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War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
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In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State... By this participation of the people in the war... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale.
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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.
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In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
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