"Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning……" — Giambattista Vico

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

— Giambattista Vico

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12 Quotes by Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Imagination Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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