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.
Karl Von Clausewitz
this quote should always be followed by Admiral Stockdale quote:
ReplyDelete“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
Stockdale Paradox
Odd how some of the sharpest thinkers were in the Wehrmacht, brilliant minds lead down the wrong path. He was one of the more philosophical Military leaders.
ReplyDeleteKlasewtitz was in the Prusdian and Russian armies fighting, and losing to Napoleon. His philosophy was hard-won
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