Literary notes about FORESIGHT (AI summary)
Throughout literature, foresight is articulated as an integral human quality—an ability to anticipate future events or prepare for unforeseen consequences. It is portrayed both as a mark of admirable prudence and as an inherent limitation of human nature. For instance, in detailed narratives of martial strategy, it is described with precision and care ([1]), while philosophical reflections position foresight as a reservoir for storing life's varied experiences ([2]). In other accounts, it underpins characters' ability to avert disasters or, alternatively, highlights situations where even the most astute preparation fails ([3]). The term is often interwoven with themes of planning and forethought, acting as a narrative device that simultaneously praises personal savviness and underscores the unpredictable unfolding of fate ([4], [5], [6]).
- What exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest detail!
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - In his powers of reflection, memory and foresight, man possesses, as it were, a machine for condensing and storing up his pleasures and his sorrows.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer - I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - This providence is over my fate, that I have to be without foresight.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - “But you are a man of foresight and prudence, therefore you sent your luggage on before you.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - The possibility of systematized foresight II.
— from How We Think by John Dewey
