“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples,
then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will
have two ideas.”
―
George Bernard Shaw
(Only $6 in hardcover!)
This copiously illustrated book begins more than 30 millennia ago
and
portrays human history as the product of a series of intellectual and
conceptual discoveries.
The author shows how our ancestors pulled
themselves out of prehistory
by realizing that symbols could be used to
express ideas;
by grasping that what we see is not necessarily what
is
by, in short, having the big idea that the world operates according
to rules that can be understood.
"Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears.
We subject all
facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations.
We enjoy the comfort of
opinion without the discomfort of thought."
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
―
John F. Kennedy
What was the FIRST IDEA
that meant something personally to you?
What IDEA is the most important
to you right now?
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Right now I only look for ideas to raise my child in the best possible way!😇
ReplyDeleteBut at different stages of life different ideas occupy our mind - some ideas work while others are utopian.
I like the quote of George Bernard shaw!!
I'm sure Oscar Wilde stole it from him! Those two were always snatching one another's best quips! :-)
DeleteOh I didn’t know!
DeleteSounds like an interesting book!
ReplyDeleteRonel visiting with the A-Z Challenge music and writing: Imagine