"The universal principle of etymology in all languages:……" — 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 of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things."
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12 Quotes by Giambattista Vico
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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
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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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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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