I say this is true with but a few exceptions:
No thought is new. Everything that can be thought has been thought before. Even if there is no evidence of it, it has been thought. The previous thinker or hearers of said thought just did not find it worthy to write down.
The only exceptions I find to this revolve around specific scientific discoveries. But the concept... the concept of such discoveries... that is not new.
So you who think yourself so revelatory... thank you Mr. Obvious.
