My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
Robert Anton WilsonRead
The average is that which no person quite ever is.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote suggests that no one truly fits into the concept of an 'average' person, highlighting the uniqueness of individuals.
Robert Anton Wilson's quote points to the idea that the concept of an 'average' person is an abstraction that fails to encompass the complexities and individuality of real people. It reflects on the tendency to classify people into categories while emphasizing that such classifications are inadequate to capture the essence of human experience and diversity.
Themes
AverageIndividualityUniquenessPhilosophyHuman Experience
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about embracing diversity, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of recognizing individual contributions.
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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.
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To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.
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