Literary notes about guidance (AI summary)
In literature, the term guidance serves as both a tangible tool and an abstract principle, often representing directions that shape the moral, spiritual, or practical courses of one’s life. It can connote divine inspiration or personal advice, as when it is depicted as a force storing up future actions ([1]) or as counsel invaluable to a young man’s development ([2]). At times, guidance implies organized instruction meant to educate or control, such as detailed rules for conduct or navigation ([3], [4]). Equally, it stands as a metaphor for higher moral or philosophical influence, a concept invoked to symbolize that which leads humanity toward better ideals ([5], [6]).
- If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
— from The Scientific Basis of Morals, and Other Essays Viz.: Right and Wrong, The Ethics of Belief, The Ethics of Religion by William Kingdon Clifford - To a young man like myself his advice and guidance were of incomparable value.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - We now pass to one of the special forms which the general function of education assumes: namely, that of direction, control, or guidance.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - 4. Two compasses, one for horizontal guidance, the other to ascertain the dip.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - A Symbol of true Guidance in return for loving Obedience; properly, if he knew it, the prime want of man.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - It would in its immediate effects furnish a torch of guidance to the philosophical critic; and ultimately to the poet himself.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
