Giambattista Vico Quotes

"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute."
- Giambattista Vico
(Related: Nature, First)

"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
(Related: Men, Doubt, Mind, Nations, World)

"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
- Giambattista Vico
(Related: Truth, Ideas)

"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."
- Giambattista Vico
(Related: Class, Common sense, Judgment, Nation, Race, Reflection)