clausewitz paradoxical trinity

Clausewitz's paradoxical trinity works the same way–the rage of the people,

(Source: Peter Paret, Clausewitz). Introduction; Artois_afterattack

We can represent the paradoxical trinity by this trio of Gods, circling the

There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn



Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.  ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990



Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim



There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994



It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

always make war a paradoxical trinity – composed of primordial violence,

CLAUSEWITZ PARADOXICAL TRINITY - Page 5. Clausewitz.

The Paradoxical Trinity of von Clausewitz Sunday, Jul 6 2008

Figure 3. Airpower Trinity

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881



Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown



Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.  ~Author Unknown

As Clausewitz said, “A theory that ignores any one of [the three]…would be

See also my own works—Christopher Bassford, Clausewitz in English: The

Intersecting pyramids as an image of the Trinity.

Thus there really is no reason to avoid translating the Trinity's

TIP-TOE THROUGH THE TRINITY

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith



First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.  ~Branch Rickey



Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw



I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown



I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

Carl von Clausewitz, On War. Upon which kind of war are we embarking in

Lexington Green - Adam Elkus posts on “Clausewitz, The Rage of the

[Figure 3 -- Battle as the Central Element in Clausewitz's Theory of War]

Carl von Clausewitz (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys."  ~Harmon Killebrew



Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland



I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997



A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold

Paradoxical Trinity « iacta alea est – The Realm of Chance

Paradoxical Trinity « iacta alea est – The Realm of Chance

Paradoxical Trinity « iacta alea est – The Realm of Chance

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik



A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  ~Enid Bagnold



Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson