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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/it-is-true-that-men-themselves-made-this-world-of-nations-but-this/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

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## More by Giambattista Vico

> [Understanding arises through making](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/understanding-arises-through-making/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

> [The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/the-universal-principle-of-etymology-in-all-languages-words-are/)

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> [Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/men-first-feel-necessity-then-look-for-utility-next-attend-to-comfort/)

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> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/and-here-we-determine-the-acme-i-e-perfect-state-of-the-nations-which/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

> [Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/governments-must-conform-to-the-nature-of-the-men-governed/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

> [People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/people-first-feel-things-without-noticing-them-then-notice-them-with/)

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> [The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/the-criterion-and-rule-of-the-true-is-to-have-made-it-accordingly-our/)

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> [It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/it-is-true-that-men-themselves-made-this-world-of-nations-but-this/)

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> [The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/the-straight-line-cannot-proceed-through-the-torturous-twists-of-life/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

> [Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/imagination-is-more-robust-in-proportion-as-reasoning-power-is-weak/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

> [Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/metaphysics-abstracts-the-mind-from-the-senses-and-the-poetic-faculty/)

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> [One truly understands only what one can create.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/one-truly-understands-only-what-one-can-create/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

> [“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/the-most-sublime-labour-of-poetry-is-to-give-sense-and-passion-to/)

[Giambattista Vico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giambattista-vico/)

> [Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/political-science-carries-inseparably-with-it-the-study-of-piety-and/)

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> [Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giambattista-vico/common-sense-is-judgment-without-reflection-shared-by-an-entire-class/)

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