mediocrity [Theme] Page 1

A common situation - people make a choice in favor of excess.

Mediocrity is always in the majority; majority rule is the revenge of mediocrity.

The ability to skillfully use a mediocre abilities do not inspire respect - and still often brings people more fame than the true dignity.

Sometimes brilliant things are done casually, accidentally, unintentionally. And once you decide, they say, now I will create a work of genius, so figushki! Will be at best a mediocrity. Another thing, if you are surrounded by mediocrity, then even the little bit of your success they may be genius.

- I can't believe my baby sister will go to Beacon with me! This is the best day of my life!
- Please, enough...
But I'm so proud of you!
Seriously, SIS - there is nothing.
- What are you talking about? This is fantastic! Everyone at Beacon will think you are the coolest!
I don't want to be the coolest! I don't even want to be the best! I just want to be the same as the next.
- What is wrong with you? You should be happy!
- Of course, I'm happy! I just... I missed two whole years. Don't want everybody to think I was special or something...
- But you're really special!

Any system that, like the "Eternity" allows a handful of people to choose the future for all mankind... for all mankind, inevitably leads to the fact that the highest good begins to be considered mediocre!

Only the mediocrity of all the paths, selects the longest...

I did notice that the talent is always drawn to talent, and only mediocrity remains indifferent and sometimes even hostile.

About the level of honor society can be judged by - whether triumphant mediocrity.

- Be content with this mediocrity, and will probably become the fantasy that you lost all this time. You're a coward and a weakling. Yes, and lazy to boot. Refuse confidence because it scares you. Praise the shadow, because the sun hurts your eyes.
- Are you my friend? If you're my friend, then love me such what I am, and not otherwise.

Kovrin now clearly saw that he was a mediocrity, and readily accepted it because, in his opinion, everyone should be happy with what he has.

- As the happy Buddha and Mohammed or Shakespeare that their good family and doctors did not treat them with ecstasy and inspiration! said Kovrin. - If Mohammed took from the nerves, potassium bromide, worked only two hours a day and drink milk after this wonderful man would have remained as little, as after his dog. The doctor and the good family in the end will do what humanity is getting stupid. mediocrity will be considered genius and civilization will perish. If you knew, said Kovrin with shame, - how grateful I am!

Preparations of bromide, idleness, warm baths, supervision, cowardly rhinestone for each breath, for every step - all this in the end will drive me to idiocy. I was mad, I had megalomania, but I was happy, cheerful and even happy, I was interesting and original. Now I have become sensible and solid but I'm like everyone else: I'm a mediocrity, I was bored.. Oh, how cruelly you have treated me! I saw hallucinations, but who was it bothering? I ask: who was it bothering?

Gray minds usually condemn what is beyond their understanding.