We speak with words we did not invent, in a language shaped ... - Quentin Skinner

"We speak with words we did not invent, in a language shaped by countless hands before us."

Quentin Skinner

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."