Understanding the past requires intellectual charity, the wi... - Quentin Skinner

"Understanding the past requires intellectual charity, the willingness to make sense of past thinkers in their own terms before judgment."

Quentin Skinner Kindness

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."

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"Kindness always comes back around."

"The power of a smile can change everything."

"Kindness is weakness to some. Not to me."