Quotes by Vico, Giambattista

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class >>

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

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

Quotations about Nations

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

God made the country and man made the town. >>

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, >>

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.

Vico, Giambattista