There is nothing new under the sun
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"What makes the difference in life is not what is said, but how it is said. As for the 'what,' the same thing has already been said perhaps many times before—and so the old saying is true: there is nothing new under the sun" --Kierkegaard |
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There is nothing new under the sun is a dictum that means that there is nothing truly novel in existence. Every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.
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Variants
- We come too late to say anything which has not been said already (1688) by Jean de La Bruyère
- All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said by Joseph Joubert (1754 – 1824)
- Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato (1929) by Alfred Whitehead
- Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (1849) by Karr
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Etymology
From Latin nihil sub sole novum, from the Hebrew, from Ecclesiastes 1:9.
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See also
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