Average Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

— Chuck Jones

“[...] extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality”

— Marilyn Manson

“performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.”

— Steven Pressfield

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

— Anonymous

“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“Common decency, good manners, kindness and hard work were treated as peculiarities”

— Ruth Hogan

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

— Alexandre Dumas

“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of…

— Arundhati Roy

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

— Horace

“I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and…

— Charles Dickens

Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

— Karl Popper