Something I Always Want To Say:

[wolven7]

Philosophers: It is no shame and no failure to be the first person to express a thought or theory.

Good night.

Comments

[teididh.livejournal.com]

On a more relevant note: Nor is it any shame not failure to be the hundredth or thousandth to grok a thought or theory, if the grokkage be true.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

[necrophonic.livejournal.com]

I have yet to meet a philosopher who wasn't more than happy to express a thought or theory as though it were new, whether it really was or not.

And I'll be damned if every new thought or theory I've ever thought I had wasn't originally churned out by somebody else. Stupid philosophers and their knowin' stuff...