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Giambattista Vico Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the italian philosopher Giambattista Vico on topics like mind, common, finally

  • Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

    — Giambattista Vico on agreement
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  • The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

    — Giambattista Vico on humanity
    1
  • Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

    — Giambattista Vico on coffee
    1
  • Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

    — Giambattista Vico on philosophy
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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 finally go mad and waste their substance.

    — Giambattista Vico on corruption
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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 of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

    — Giambattista Vico on language
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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 times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

    — Giambattista Vico on nation
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  • About Giambattista Vico

    Name Giambattista Vico
    Quotes 7 quotations
    Nationality Italian
    Profession Philosopher
    Birthday October 16
    About Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of [re]New[ed] Science about the Common Nature of Nations" (Principi di Scienza Nuova d'intorno alla Comune Natura delle Nazioni).
    Top topics mind, common, finally, entire, nation

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