Boldness Becomes Rarer, The Higher The Rank.

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.

In War, Where Imperfect Intelligence, The Threat Of A Catastrophe, And The Number Of Accidents Are Incomparably Greater Than Any Other Human Endeavor, The Amount Of Missed Opportunities, So To Speak, Is Therefore Bound To Be Greater.

The Only Situation A Commander Can Know Fully Is His Own: His Opponent's He Can Know Only From Unreliable Intelligence.

War Is The Province Of Danger.

War Is An Act Of Force, And To The Application Of That Force There Is No Limit. Each Of The Adversaries Forces The Hand Of The Other, And A Reciprocal Action Results Which In Theory Can Have No Limit.