All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Carl von Clausewitz

Carl von Clausewitz

Action Fog Grotesque Kind Larger Like Make Moonlight Often Place Really Seem Speak Takes Tends Than Things Twilight Which

Related Quotes

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

— Karl von Clausewitz

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

— Carl von Clausewitz

ActActionBetter

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

— Carl von Clausewitz

CourageAboveAll Things

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

— Carl von Clausewitz

DevelopsPoliticsWar

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

— Carl von Clausewitz

AccustomedDemandsDepend