Quotes About Analysis

The Giles' edition of the ART OF WAR, as stated above, was a scholarly work.

The wise general in his deliberations must consider both favorable and unfavorable factors. He ponders the dangers inherent in the advantages, and the advantages inherent in the dangers. By taking into account the favorable factors, he makes his plan feasible; by taking into account the unfavorable, he may resolve the difficulties. Advantage and disadvantage are mutually reproductive. The enlightened deliberate.

El valiente puede luchar, el cuidadoso puede hacer de centinela, y el inteligente puede estudiar, analizar y comunicar. Cada cuál es útil.

Victory belongs to the side that scores most in temple calculations before battle

Comparar cuidadosamente el ejército enemigo con el propio, para saber donde abunda su fuerza y donde es deficiente.

cited by Pi I-hsun, we may see in this theory a probable solution of the mystery. Between Ssu-ma Ch`ien and

Tzu except the 82 P`IEN, whereas the Sui and T`ang bibliographies give the titles of others in addition to the 13 chapters, is good proof, Pi I-hsun thinks, that all of these were contained in the 82 P`IEN. Without

He who only sees the obvious, wins his battles with difficulty; he who looks below the surface of things, wins with ease.

Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat:

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own then I can concentrate and he must divide.

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity.

The highest form of warfare Is to attack Strategy itself;

The terrain leads to measurements; The measurements lead to estimates; The estimates lead to calculations; The calculations lead to weighing the options; The weighing leads to victory.5

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Perform your calculations for everything liable to calculation, but also think very deeply about what people are capable of.

We view the world on a molecular level. The building blocks, not the end results.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it. That is why I want to talk about it, and why I can. For no one who wholeheartedly shares in a given sensibility can analyze it; he can only, whatever his intention, exhibit it.

To be sure, nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.

Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.