To study history is to study not what people were like but w... - Quentin Skinner

"To study history is to study not what people were like but what possibilities for human thought and action have been realized at different times."

Quentin Skinner Imagination

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."

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"The world is full of mysteries waiting to be solved."