All Giambattista Vico Quotes
- Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. Class
- The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion… Accordingly
- Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally… Amuse
- Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and… Abstracts
- 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… Always Superior
- The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. Cannot Proceed
- People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind. Clear
- Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. Imagination
- One truly understands only what one can create. Create
- The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of… All
- Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. Among
- The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. Benign