Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mediocrity Quotations

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.