The past is a foreign country; we are its explorers. - Quentin Skinner

"The past is a foreign country; we are its explorers."

Quentin Skinner Adventure

Historian Philosopher British Born 1940 (age 86)

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"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"Ideas have consequences, and the historian's task is to trace them."

"We must understand the languages in which the past speaks to us."

"The study of history is the study of human possibility."

"The greatest adventure is life itself."

"The adventure of life begins with a single step."

"Adventure finds you when you stop running."

"Fortune and glory, kid."