Giambattista Vico

Philosopher

1668-06-23

Quotes by Giambattista Vico

• Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

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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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• Wherever a people has grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

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