Carl von Clausewitz Quotes


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


Citations

von Clausewitz, Carl. On War. Translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, Princeton University Press, 1984, p. 111.

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Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
  • Born: June 1, 1780
  • Died: November 16, 1831
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Soldier

Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (meaning, in modern terms, psychological) and political aspects of war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege transl. On War, was unfinished at his death.