Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. Jim Morrison
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. D. H. Lawrence
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. Emil Cioran
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground. Marshall McLuhan
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. P. F. Strawson