Carl von Clausewitz Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Character, Sea

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

• Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Character, Feelings

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

• Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Intelligent, Men, People

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.102, Princeton University Press

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