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Top 5 Quotes by Giambattista Vico


About Giambattista Vico


These are some quotes by Italian author Giambattista Vico, who lived between June 23, 1668 and January 23, 1744.

 
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

time diverse true
 
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

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

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

Giambattista Vico

truth unknown uniform
 
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

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

Giambattista Vico

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

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

Giambattista Vico

entire sense class
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