Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
“And here we determine the άκμή [acme], i.e. perfect state, of the nations, which is enjoyed when the sciences, disciplines and arts, all of… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals,… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
![“And here we determine the άκμή [acme], i.e. perfect state, of the nations, which is enjoyed when the sciences, disciplines and arts, all of which draw their being from religion and the law, are in service to religion and the law. Hence when the nations conduct themselves in a different way, as…” quote by Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b2/giambattista-vico-24320_art_and-here-we-determine-the-acme-i-e-perfe_376482.jpg)
