Giambattista Vico Quotes on Truth
Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher of history, rhetorician, and jurist working in obscurity at Naples. This page collects quotes attributed to Giambattista Vico on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Giambattista Vico:
“The true and the made are convertible.”
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Attributed to Giambattista Vico:
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire people, an entire nation, or the entire human race.”
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Attributed to Giambattista Vico:
“The order of ideas must follow the order of things.”
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“The truth itself is made. On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians (1710)”
Verum esse ipsum factum -
“Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”
The New Science 144 (1744)