Quotes by Vico, Giambattista

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then d >>

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfor >>

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty >>

Quotations about Human Nature

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not >>

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only >>

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ign >>

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

Vico, Giambattista