Augustine—Mani
Ockham—Lombard
Hume—Descartes
Kant—Hume
Hegel—Kant
Schopenhauer—Kant
Peirce—Kant
Barth—Schleiermacher

Focus.

When I read the great thinkers I’m stuck by the fact that they were focused on one or two great thinkers who came before them, by whom they were inspired. They did not let themselves get pulled in a hundred different directions by all the lesser voices.