Quotes About Averageness

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

He wore his averageness lightly, almost proudly, like a transparent scholar's gown, underneath which he was nakedly an administrator.

Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

People want you to be ordinary.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole lot of averageness into one compact frame.

The average is that which no person quite ever is.

While composite faces tend, by construction, to also be more symmetric, Langlois found that even after the effects of symmetry have been controlled, averageness was still judged to be attractive. These findings argue for a certain level of prototyping in the mind, since averageness might well be coupled with a prototypical template.

What is history if not a mass grave filled with the bodies of followers of Special Men? Maybe averageness and blandness is what we need right now.

In ordinary language: as a result of the pressure of the crowd, most people lead lives that are inauthentic and irresponsible. The "they" watches over "everything exceptional that thrusts itself to the fore. Every kind of priority gets noiselessly suppressed." There is a general "levelling down," a socially enforced "averageness," in which everything authentic "gets glossed over as something that has long been well known.