Men first felt 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.
-- Giambattista Vico (c1700)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GiambattistaVico #Decadence #TheHumanCondition #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

“Forever praised be Providence, which when the weak sight of mortals sees in it nothing but stern justice, then most of all is at work on a crowning mercy!”

Translated from the Italian by Max Harold Fisch and Thomas Goddard Bergin, quote is actually in their introduction, from a private letter Vico sent on Oct 25, 1725.

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Men first felt 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.
-- Giambattista Vico (c1700)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GiambattistaVico #Decadence #TheHumanCondition #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Graffiti

#Lizzo ya toma Ozempic; el #fascismo va al alza en el #mundo; el #futuro no parece nada bueno. ¿Se está cumpliendo la profecía de un filósofo italiano y un crítico machista?
Léanlo en mi #artículo del mes en #LiteralMagazine.
https://literalmagazine.com/lizzo-ya-toma-ozempic/

#literatura #artículos #actualidad #autoritarismo #HaroldBloom #GiambattistaVico #filosofía #política #música

"Il senso comune è un giudizio senz'alcuna riflessione, comunemente sentito da tutto un ordine, da tutto un popolo, da tutta una nazione, o da tutto il gener umano".

Il #23giugno 1668 nasceva il filosofo, storico e giurista #GiambattistaVico.

#ilbortoneficio