Literary notes about InSight (AI summary)
Literary authors use the term "insight" to denote a deep, often intuitive understanding that penetrates beyond surface appearances. It conveys not only an awareness of human emotions and character—as when a writer reveals the hidden feelings behind vehement declarations ([1]) or classifies a lady’s social standing with but a glance ([2])—but also a capacity to perceive broader truths about society, government, and the self, as seen in discourses on the nature of statecraft ([3], [4]) or the penetrating analysis of philosophical principles ([5], [6]). Across genres from personal memoirs to epic historical narratives, "insight" becomes a mechanism through which complex inner worlds and abstract ideas are rendered palpable and meaningful.
- The vehemence with which he pronounced these words gave me a deep insight into his feelings.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - With the insight of a man of the world, from one glance at this lady’s appearance Vronsky classified her as belonging to the best society.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - One of them in particular discovers a deep insight into the constitution of government.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - But we cannot read the Politics without recognising and profiting from the insight into the nature of the state which is revealed throughout.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle - There is a directness of aim in virtue which gives an insight into vice.
— from The Republic by Plato - [12] That man is endowed with true insight who sees that the same ruling power is inherent in all things, and that when these perish, it perishes not.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer
