Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw · first published 1903
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From the book:My dear Walkley: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journal
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…"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." ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “The Joys of Being a Stoic” ↗…“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.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train” ↗“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.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman I've always used this as an excuse for what might be considered being weird (at least that's what my family tells me).
on “John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US” ↗"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." ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “Improving Ourselves to Death” ↗…“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.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training” ↗“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.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “Wrapping Up 2021. Leaving C++” ↗…as EPUB, and most of it worked. A lot of them were the "Compatible EPUB" version from Standard EBooks. (Even though it says they're not for Kindle, that appears to be out-of-date.) So I just tried Man and Superman this way -- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-bernard-shaw/man-an... -- and it worked just fine. I guess I don't know if the formatting is completely correct, but I haven't had any difficulty…
on “Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format” ↗…life on this earth. Nietzsche was not forecasting the brutal superman of the German Nazis, for his goal was a “Caesar with Christ’s soul.” George Bernard Shaw popularized the term “superman” in his play Man and Superman (1903). https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~pj97/Nietzsche.htm https://study.com/academy/lesson/nietzsches-bermensch-concep... Is George Bernard Shaw also a Nazi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_and_Superman…
tldr; 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. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
on “Could The Rebellion Against Traditional Publishing Actually Work?” ↗…“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.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “Richard Stallman on Data Autonomy [video]” ↗…"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." ―George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
on “Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix” ↗…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. ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off” ↗Also see George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (a scene from Man and Superman often performed as a one-act play). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_and_Superman#Don_Juan_in_H...
on “Lord Byron: Don Juan in Hell” ↗"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types” ↗“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
on “Transhumanism Is a Dead End (2017)” ↗