One truly understands only what one can create.

- Giambattista Vico

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

- Giambattista Vico

Understanding arises through making

- Giambattista Vico

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals…

- Giambattista Vico

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury,…

- Giambattista Vico

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 contra…

- Giambattista Vico

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

- Giambattista Vico

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

- Giambattista Vico

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

- Giambattista Vico