Who do like philosophical words?

Yes who do? And what do you think the best are?

"Never interrupt your enemy when he does a mistake"

Napoleon Bonoparte.

"All warfare is based on deception."

Sun Tzu "Art of war"

"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant."

Sun Tzu "Art of war"

"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."

Sun Tzu "Art of war".

"Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."

Sun Tzu "Art of war".

"Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."

Sun Tzu "Art of war"

Hmm. Water...

They're good for inspiring hope in people which helps drive some people so yeah they're are good for something and to be liked for that reason.But otherwise real life situations everything needs to be set on the table and thought through before acting for honor or anything just to be fair and make sure it's the right choice.Kinda like these ones were written as a best thing to do at that time things are always changing so basically just can't live by them fully.

"We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors."

LOL!

Sun Tzu "Art of war"

"It is a military axiom not to advance uphill against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill."

LOL!

Sun Tzu "Art of war"

"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."

Sun Tzu "Art of war"

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that
is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and
understand, for all that is life."

"If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless."

LOL!

Sun Tzu "Art of war"

Tzu is one cool mofo.

Sun Tzu is a famous chinese general.

Chinese*

Is that your only mistake that you can correct? ;o)

🙂

No. But this one is faster.

Do you like to be corrected so you learn more quickly?

Haffo got a wise quote for you...it goes like this:

"Be not ashamed of your mistakes and thus make them CRIMES!" (Confucius)

Everyone should be proud of making them...MAKE MISTAKES PEOPLE and learn from them.
It's better than never trying at all.

What's up with all the war and enemy oriented quotes...are you planning to take someone down? 😛

"Do you like to be corrected so you learn more quickly?"

Of course yes.

LOL Melusine.

Well I know that was a joke, but in serious meaning life itself is sort of war. Therefore some strategics like that can help. It doesn't have to be blood involved (Gosh) but life is still a war.

BTW Melusine.

Since you mentioned about that, what are your favourite quotes (if you have any).

Sure do...most of them are from Nietzsche:

1."Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?"

2."Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

3."He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

4."It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right."

My all time fav:

5."What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

So what do you think of them? too cynical?

Nope.

They are good.

I liked 1,2,4. I didn't understand 3 and 5. LOL!

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
- Joseph Stalin

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard
die for his."
- General George S. Patton

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and
how he died that distinguish one man from another."
- Ernest Hemingway

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your
art of war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You can't say civilization don't advance - for in every war, they kill you in
a new way."
- Will Rogers

"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."
- Croesus

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
- Jose Narosky

"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
- John Arbuthnot Fisher

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
hundred battles."
- Sun-Tzu

"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
- Winston Churchill

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
- Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts."
- Winston Churchill

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
- General George S. Patton

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
- General George S. Patton

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death
but once."
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne

"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is
himself afraid of you at that very moment."
- Andre Maurois

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"
- Emiliano Zapata

"You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war."
- Kosovar

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
- Georges Clemenceau