Rational people adapt themselves to society, while irrational people always insist on letting society adapt to themselves, so all progress must rely on these irrational people

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.

There are two tragedies in life: one is despair; the other is complacency. Another translation is:

There are two greatest tragedies in life, one is not getting what you hoped for, and the other is finally getting what you hoped for.

There

are

two

tragedies

in

life.

One

is

not

to

get

your

heart's

desire.

The

other

is

to

get

it.

George

Bernard

Shaw,

"Man

and

Superman"

(1903),

act

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