The past teaches not through providing models to emulate but... - Quentin Skinner

"The past teaches not through providing models to emulate but through expanding our sense of what has been possible and therefore what might yet be."

Quentin Skinner Hope

Historian Philosopher British Born 1940 (age 86)

More from Quentin Skinner

"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."

"Every day is a new opportunity."

"Hope is what gets us through difficult times."

"I'm not your enemy, kid. I'm trying to save you."

"Redemption is a long road."