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“You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.”

Mind Humans Desire Purpose Human Beings Meditation Buddhism Filled Average Definitions Senses Controlled Vagueness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?”

Humans Has Beens Ends Enough Problem Turns Wealth Human Beings Century Smart Average Solve 21st Century Life Span Average Life

Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon

“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.”

Want Believe Humans Persons Doe Stills Feelings Human Beings Loneliness Solitude Equal Lonely Assuming Average Oneself Remedy Popularity Naive Inability Average Person Feeling Lonely

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.”

Men World Humans Different Character Certain Human Beings Position Goodness Direct Relation Average Intuition Sensual

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.”

Want Humans Use Human Beings Buddhism Abuse Average Careful Passing Passings Be Careful Abuse Of Power Another Life Passing Through Use And Abuse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”

People Ifs Humans Government Courses Given Chance Human Beings Theory Normal Democratic Average Bitter Democratic Government Given A Chance Bitter Experience

Book:Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

Source: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

“Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!”

Men Trying Humans Human Beings Affair Average Manage Sexism Womens Rights Shortcomings Inconsistency

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.”

“There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.”

Way Humans Littles Stills Important Individual Human Beings Habit Evidence Rounds Starting Average Discouraging Generalization

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.”

Trying Humans Long Human Beings Attention Half Modern Average Attention Span

Author:Meg Rosoff

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.”

Thinking Men Humans Self Human Beings Taken Ordinary Average Capability Ordinary Man Average Man

Author:Abraham Maslow