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.
One truly understands only what one can create. - Giambattista Vico
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
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
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
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals…
Understanding arises through making - Giambattista Vico
Understanding arises through making
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
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…
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
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury,…
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. - Giambattista Vico
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature. - Giambattista Vico
Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. - Giambattista Vico
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
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