Giambattista Vico
“Common sense is judgment without reflection.”
“Human choice is a true cause.”
“History must be written by laws, not by chance.”
“Metaphysics is born of the sense of wonder.”
“The nature of peoples is best revealed in their customs.”
“Language is the first institution of humanity.”
“The world of nations is made by men, and so may be known by men.”
“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, then amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”
“Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”
“Verum esse ipsum factum.”