“But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.”
Quote by Giambattista Vico
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Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, historian, and literary theorist, born on June 23, 1668, and died on January 21, 1744. His philosophical ideas have had a profound impact on later generations, particularly in the fields of historical philosophy and literary theory. more