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.
Subject:
Progress
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Subject:
Fashion
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
Subject:
Choice
Source: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
Subject:
Religious
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Subject:
Patriotism
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Subject:
Human Nature
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Subject:
Politics
Politicians
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Quotes from Plays
Source: Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Subject:
Mankind
Sarcasm
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
Subject:
Economics
Source:
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
Subject:
Fashion
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
Subject:
Fashion
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Subject:
Sincerity
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Subject:
Teaching
Source: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists
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Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Subject:
Food
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Subject:
War
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Subject:
Advice
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Subject:
Mankind
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Subject:
England
Source: Pygmalion (1916) preface
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