| Bernard Shaw - 1903 - 316 pages
...months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. REASON The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. The man who listens to Reason is lost : Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master... | |
| André Maurois - 1921 - 208 pages
...warrior passionately. The Portuguese went to the shambles. 33 CHAPTER IV A BUSINESS MAN IN THE ARMY " The reasonable man adapts himself to the world ; the...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — GB SHAW (in A Revolutionist's Handbook). COLONEL MUSGRAVE of the RASC had been instructed to superintend... | |
| Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1922 - 874 pages
...always be the antinomy between the demands of security and those of progress. As Bernard Shaw puts it: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." It is true that of late we have gone a long way in breaking down old customs. There is today but little... | |
| André Maurois - 1922 - 200 pages
...Portuguese went to the shambles. CHAPTER IV A BUSINESS MAN IN THE ARMY " The reasonable man adapts himaelf to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."—GB SHAW (in A Revolutionists'a Handbook). COLONEL MUSGRAVE of the RASC had been instructed... | |
| Bernhard Fehr - 1927 - 254 pages
...the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.1) — — The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1974 - 1208 pages
...According to George Bernard Shaw, "The reasonable man adapts himself to tho world ; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself....Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Much of the coronary heart disease in the T'nited States derives from our desire to eat too much, smoke... | |
| Christian Bouscaren - 1966 - 260 pages
...visit, his nostalgia decreased, and sometimes it decreased from what It had been to almost nothing. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the...Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. GB SHAW (Man and Superman). Variety's the very spice of life. That gives it all its flavour. William... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 608 pages
...in a discontent which dares him to challnge the existing order of things. As George B. Shaw said : "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world ;...world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends npon the Unreasonable Man." It is true that the world could not have survived had it been populated... | |
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