"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by……" — Giambattista Vico
"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."
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12 Quotes by Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico has 12 quotes on this site.
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The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the…
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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow…
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Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics…
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a…
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The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
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People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them…
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Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.
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One truly understands only what one can create.
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The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies…
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Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
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