Every probability in the most brilliant exercise in manoeuvre warfare, depending wholly upon superior use of intelligence, in the broadest sense, perhaps ever achieved.
John Keegan, “On the Tactics of Stonewall Jackson” in Intelligence in War, 2003
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man’s imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 1951 (via burnaway)