7 Quotations by Giambattista Vico
- 1. Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the ent ...

- 2. It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued ...

- 3. Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselve ...

- 4. Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind ...

- 5. The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

- 6. The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from t ...

- 7. Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of tr ...

Giambattista Vico Quotes by Power Quotations
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