As I am wont to do, I will now bore you with a long and possibly meaningless quote:
"Anything that could not be reached by the meager wisdom of such one-sided points of view was held to be beyond scientific control: it lay in the realm of genius, <i>which rises above all rules.</i> [author's italics]
Pity the soldier who is supposed to crawl among these scraps of rules, not good enough for genius, which genius can ignore, or laugh at. No; what genius does is the best rule, and theory can do no better than show how and why this should be the case.
Pity the theory that conflicts with reason! No amount of humility can gloss over this contradiction; indeed, the greater the humility, the sooner it will be driven off the field of real life by ridicule and contempt."
- Carl von Clausewitz, <u>On War</u>, Book Two, Chapter 2
Edited by - Mike Cox on 07/03/2002 14:49:59
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