We should not ask what classical texts have to teach us toda... - Quentin Skinner

"We should not ask what classical texts have to teach us today, but rather what past thinkers were attempting to accomplish in their own moments."

Quentin Skinner Education

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."

"Education opens doors."

"Education opens doors to endless possibilities."

"I ain't got the education you got, bub."

"You can't put a price on history."