Giambattista VicoMen 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 … ▶371Time
Giambattista VicoIt 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… ▶282ThoughtTimeTruth
Giambattista VicoThe straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.338Life
Giambattista VicoUniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. ✨ Giambattista Vico (2015). The New Science of Giambattista Vico, p.… ▶329HumanityThoughtTruth
Giambattista VicoThe nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ✨ Giambattista Vico (2015). The New Science of Giambattista Vico, p.153, Co… ▶214Humanity
Giambattista VicoThe criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. F… ▶2610ThoughtTruth
Giambattista VicoMetaphysics 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 … ▶2410PhilosophyThought
Giambattista VicoThe 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… ▶141DeathThought
Giambattista VicoPeople first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.178HumanityReflectionThought
Giambattista VicoCommon sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. ✨ Giambattista Vico (2015). The New Science of Giambattis… ▶159HumanityReflection
