Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

1668–1744 · lived 75 years

n. 1668-06-23, Nápoles · m. 1744-01-23, Nápoles

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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.

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.

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

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