Quote by Quentin Skinner

"The language we use to describe the world is never innocent; it carries within it the assumptions of those who shaped it."

Quentin Skinner
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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