"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
By those definitions...joeldoesntworkNovember 24 2006, 08:08:04 UTC
...I am extremely reasonable. Like I defy you to find a more reasonable man.
...not so sure about you though because you can definitely bend the ways of the world to get what you want, so you are unreasonable. But you also have a VERY logical mind which can explain and reason things out so that you can adapt to them when you wish to so you are reasonable.
I'm not quite sure how you managed to become both reasonable and unreasonable. Good work. Gold star.
I shoulda fallen asleep like an hour ago. Such is life.
The unreasonable man expects the world to adapt to himself. The reasonable man causes the world to adapt to himself, and if that is not possible, he will adapt until it is. Therefore all progress depends on the reasonable man.
I would argue that man's sole claim to a unique trait is that, in dealing with a harsh environment, his first response is to adapt his environment to himself, rather than vice versa (witness air conditioning, fire/heating of any kind, buildings/shelter, irrigation, terraforming, farming, etc., etc.). This is what sets man apart.
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...not so sure about you though because you can definitely bend the ways of the world to get what you want, so you are unreasonable. But you also have a VERY logical mind which can explain and reason things out so that you can adapt to them when you wish to so you are reasonable.
I'm not quite sure how you managed to become both reasonable and unreasonable. Good work. Gold star.
I shoulda fallen asleep like an hour ago. Such is life.
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The unreasonable man expects the world to adapt to himself. The reasonable man causes the world to adapt to himself, and if that is not possible, he will adapt until it is. Therefore all progress depends on the reasonable man.
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