Predecessors Part

Famous quotes containing the words predecessors and/or part:

    No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
    Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

    As part of nature he is part of us.
    His rarities are ours: may they be fit
    And reconcile us to our selves in those
    True reconcilings, dark, pacific words,
    And the adroiter harmonies of their fall.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)