The archive is never innocent; what survives tells us as muc... - Quentin Skinner

"The archive is never innocent; what survives tells us as much about the past as about those who preserved it."

Quentin Skinner History

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."

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."