War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Interpretation
War often involves numerous tragic events, yet it can lead to an ultimate outcome or victory.
Georges Clemenceauβs quote reflects on the paradox of war, illustrating how the path to victory is often fraught with numerous disasters and tragedies. It suggests that while war may bring about a resolution or success for one side, the multitude of hardships endured highlights the devastating cost of such a victory, prompting reflection on the true nature of success in the context of conflict.
In practice
During a speech about the complexities of leadership in times of crisis.
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need to defeat?,' you start to see the unfolding of God in everything and everyone around you and you shift into higher consciousness.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.
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