Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

For the most part, I don't think I'm any different than anybody else.

I am one of the great army of mediocrity which constitutes the majority.

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

You are not a special snowflake.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

We can’t all be better than everyone else.

I am just like everyone else.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

a normal human being ... does not exist.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.