Quotessence
Home / Authors / Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz

Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Military Historian

Filter quotes by topic

AllWarMilitaryEnemyIfsMenMeanMayActionForceHumansWholeActivityChanceFirstsUncertaintyArtGivingIntellectKindMind

Famous Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

“Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.”

MindDoeLyingPassionDifferencesCircumstancesCivilizationHatredInstitutionsPassionateCivilizedSavagesSavagery
Author:Carl von Clausewitz
Create image

“Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.”

IfsMindMayReasonUseExpressionArmsCircumstancesDegreesGainsDeterminationUncertaintyIncessantly
Book:On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war
Create image