Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, ins…

Carl von Clausewitz
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Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms. ✨ Carl von Clausewitz (2016). On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war, p.36, Aegitas
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