Words have careers. Their meanings shift and evolve as they ... - Quentin Skinner

"Words have careers. Their meanings shift and evolve as they move through different contexts, speakers, and historical periods."

Quentin Skinner Art

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 stage is my true home."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Living well means living properly."

"Art and music are the treasures of civilization"