George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1925),
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (1938),
Playwright, Critic, Political Activist, Socialist
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Doesn’t that imply that the most reasonable man should kill himself, thereby becoming part of `the world’, since the limit of adaptation is assimilation? This definition of `reasonable’ is flawed.