Quotes by Vico, Giambattista

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

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

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

Quotations about Metaphysics

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little lo >>

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my >>

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphy >>

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.

Vico, Giambattista