Introduction
What Is an Idea?
I know the answer. The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! What, the answer is twelve? I think I’m in the wrong building.
Charles Schultz
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
Mark Twain
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
Before we figure out how to get ideas we must discuss what ideas are, for if we don’t know what things are it’s difficult to figure out how to get more of them.
The only trouble is: How do you define an idea?
A. E. Housman said: “I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, but both of us recognize the object by the symptoms which it produces in us.” Beauty is like that too. So are things ...
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