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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Carl von Clausewitz
Age: 51 †
Born: 1780
Born: June 1
Died: 1831
Died: November 16
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Military Historian
Military Officer
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Burg bei Magdeburg
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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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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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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
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Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
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Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
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Battles decide everything.
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A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
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The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.
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There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
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It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.
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War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
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