Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
Interpretation
Understanding human nature reduces the need for external guidance.
In this quote, Alexander Hamilton asserts that a solid grasp of human nature empowers individuals to navigate life's complexities without relying heavily on external advice or opinions. It highlights the importance of self-awareness and understanding those around us as a foundational skill that can guide our decisions and actions.
In practice
During a leadership seminar when discussing decision-making.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its rights and interests: and the latter facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.
The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.
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