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Men 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 their substance. - Giambattista Vico Quotes

Men 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 their substance.

Giambattista Vico

Comfort Decadence

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

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

Giambattista Vico

Class Italian Philosopher

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. - Giambattista Vico Quotes

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

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Italian Philosopher Nature

Metaphysics 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 plunge deep into particulars. - Giambattista Vico Quotes

Metaphysics 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 plunge deep into particulars.

Giambattista Vico

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 Quotes

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

Italian Philosopher Words

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

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

Giambattista Vico

Ideas Italian Philosopher

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 Quotes

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

Doubt Italian Philosopher

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