It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share
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
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share
