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“Bacon, like Vico, held that the ancients were not classic models for the moderns, but their primitive ancestors – an idea that lies at the core of the New Science.” quote by Giambattista Vico — Download Open image

““Bacon, like Vico, held that the ancients were not classic models for the moderns, but their primitive ancestors – an idea that lies at the core of the New Science.””

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Understanding arises through making

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The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things…

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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…

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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 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 they would with the Epicureans and Stoics, or…

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Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

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People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

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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…

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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…

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The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

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Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

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Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals,…

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One truly understands only what one can create.

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