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Creative
Quotations from
Giambattista Vico
(1668-1744) born on Jun 23
Italian philosopher;
He is recognized as a
forerunner of cultural
anthropology or ethnology.
Common sense is
judgment without
reflection,
shared by an
entire class,
an entire nation,
or the entire
human race.
…this world has
issued from a mind
often diverse, at
times contrary,
and always
superior to the
particular ends
that men had
proposed…
Uniform ideas
originating among
entire peoples
unknown to each
other must have
a common ground
of truth.
The nature of
peoples is
first crude,
then severe,
then benign,
then delicate,
finally dissolute.
Men first feel
necessity, then
look for utility,
next attend to
comfort, still
later amuse
themselves with
pleasure…
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