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Giambattista Vico Inspirational Quotes (10)
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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.
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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
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People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.
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Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.
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Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed governments are even a result of that nature.
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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.
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One truly understands only what one can create.
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Understanding arises through making
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The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
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The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.
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