But everything takes a different shape when we pass from ab… - Carl von Clausewitz

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But everything takes a different shape when we pass from abstractions to reality. In the former, everything must be subject to optimism, and we must imagine the one side as well as the other striving after perfection and even attaining it. Will this ever take place in reality?

Carl von Clausewitz

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Carl von Clausewitz (1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and influential military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War.

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Native Name: Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz

Alternative Names: Carl Philipp Gottlieb Clausewitz • von Clausewitz • Clausewitz

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