This Tremendous Friction Which Cannot,

The Backbone Of Surprise Is Fusing Speed With Secrecy.

If You Entrench Yourself Behind Strong Fortifications, You Compel The Enemy Seek A Solution Elsewhere.

Architects And Painters Know Precisely What They Are About As Long As They Deal With Material Phenomena.... But When They Come To The Aesthetics Of Their Work, When They Aim At A Particular Effect On The Mind Or On The Senses, The Rules Dissolve Into Nothing But Vague Ideas.

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.

The Difficulty Of Accurate Recognition Constitutes One Of The Most Serious Sources Of Friction In War, By Making Things Appear Entirely Different From What One Had Expected.