Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Carl von Clausewitz

• Nature
• Clarity
• Uncertainty

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Control

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Day
  • Morning

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Picture

• I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Girl

• Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Hand

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• The nature of things is dharma.

  

  Mahavira
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Dharma

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Nature
  • Brain

• I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nature

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.

  

  John Guare
  • Time
  • Good
  • Home

• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • People
  • Live
  • Nature

• With the R&B, gospel feel that 'Sparkle' has, that opens the door for my fans to be more accepting of that sound and also for me to try it.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Door
  • Sparkle

• What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Mistake

• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Nature
  • Clarity
  • Uncertainty