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“Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.”
“Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.”
“Most human beings still cannot trust love.”
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”
“Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.”
“Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.”
“Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.”
“Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.”
“Most human beings wish to be happy and healthy. This universal realization is painfully obvious and yet is overlooked due to its simplicity. We all naturally desire to feel free on all levels: mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. We wish to feel joyful, abundant, serene and blissful. This desire is ultimately grounded in a higher human nature.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”
“Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others”
Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“Most human characteristics that are genuinely universal are easily accounted for in evolutionary terms, and the arguments are widely known. For example, we all live in families and societies because to do so aids our survival and the propagation of our genes. We all have the capacity for love because it is an emotion that promotes family and social life. We all have laws of one kind or another because these, too, reinforce family and social ties and thus make us stronger and more competitive. We all eat food and drink water because we will soon die if we don't. We all use the unique human gift of language to preserve knowledge handed down from previous generations, and to create culture - thus further sharpening our competitive edge.”
Source: Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
“most human endeavours, unless checked by public dissent, evolve into monocultures. money seeks out a region’s comparative advantage, the field in which it competes most successfully, and promotes it to the exclusion of all else. every landscape or seascape, if this process is loosed, performs just one function. this greatly taxes the natural world”
Source: Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
“Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.”
“Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.”
“Most Human (Sonnet 2151)
Racism is no longer tolerated as normal,
Islamophobia is no longer tolerated as normal,
Homophobia is no longer tolerated as normal,
Chauvinism is no longer tolerated as normal,
Colonialism is no longer tolerated as normal -
believe you me, I speak as a biologist,
this is the most human humanity have
ever been in our 200,000 years long history.
Accessibility is no longer ignored as unimportant,
Autism is no longer frowned upon as abnormal,
Integration is no longer cussed as act of stigma,
Intolerance no longer celebrated as divine intervention.
No wonder bigots have their knickers in a twist,
customs of the jungle are getting eradicated like disease.
Don't be disheartened by occasional resurgence of fascism,
inhumanity flickers fiercely before fading into the abyss.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Most human subjugates are young,” said Will. “Vampires like to acquire their subjugates when they’re youthful—prettier to look at, and less chance of diseased blood. And they’ll live a bit longer, though not much.” He looked pleased with himself. “Most of the rest of the Enclave wouldn’t be able to pass convincingly as a handsome young human subjugate—” “Because the rest of us all are hideous, are we?” Jem inquired, looking amused.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Most human suffering is man-made.”
“Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.”
“Most humans are but beasts and bitches, till the One in All - this unconscious seeking, and conscious finding of it - 'em itches.”
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”
“Most humans are refugees in our countries because all our ancestors scattered across the globe from our homeland Africa.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time. She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Been set for still-bait. When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Most humans expressed affection by pressing their lips together, a simple act, so why would anyone feel the need to research the process?”
Source: Alienated
“Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.”
“Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.”
“Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.”
“Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.”
“Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.”
Source: Predator: Incursion
“Most humans suffer from amnesia.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Most humans think I'm..." He shrugged awkwardly. "Attractive or whatever at first, but when they get closer, they get this... I don't know. Repulsed look on their face, like they can't work out what's wrong with me, but they know there's something.”
Source: Moth
“Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.”
Source: Trickster's Choice
“Most humans think - "we are living our life, the world is not our business." And that's precisely where not only everything gets messed up, but more importantly, that's where humanity loses the right to be called human, for being human requires possessing a sense of responsibility towards the society we live in, without which we might as well be living in the jungle with our fellow animals.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.”
Source: Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“Most humans will spew forth a variety of rebuttals as to why a civilization can't function without money and taxes because they've been conditioned and brainwashed so thoroughly that they're unknowingly offering up lies they were programmed to speak when a divergent human expressed ideas that differed from the programming.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead.”
“Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.”
“Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.”
“Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.”
Source: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
“Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.”
Source: Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination
“Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Most ideas are waking dreams that fade to an emotional residue.”
“Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.”
“Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.”
“Most if not all philosophies and creeds, respectively all Machine Man science including neuroscience, attempt to absolve us from our responsibilities, to no avail.”
“Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex; they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then.”
Source: On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938
“Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938