Quotes by Vico, Giambattista

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this >>

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other m >>

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

Quotations about Language

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have fo >>

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. >>

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language >>

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.

Vico, Giambattista