Top 38 Giambattista Quotes
#1. The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#2. I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
Natalia Vodianova
#4. The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
Giambattista Vico
#5. The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Giambattista Vico
#6. Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.
Giambattista Bodoni
#7. A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.
Giambattista Vico
#8. Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
Giambattista Vico
#9. The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.
Giambattista Bodoni
#12. Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Giambattista Vico
#13. Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.
Giambattista Basile
#14. 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.
Giambattista Vico
#15. In a few years, the date-tree had grown as tall as a woman, and out of it came a Fairy, who said to Zezolla, "What do you wish for?
Giambattista Basile
#16. My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.
Giambattista Valli
#17. Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.
Giambattista Vico
#18. It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Giambattista Vico
#19. Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.
Giambattista Vico
#20. In every [other] pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but who is not a poet by nature can never become one by art.
Giambattista Vico
#21. Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.
Giambattista Vico
#22. ... rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that
man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.
Giambattista Vico
#24. The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.
Giambattista Valli
#26. The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.
Giambattista Valli
#27. Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.
Giambattista Vico
#28. Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome.
Giambattista Basile
#29. The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Giambattista Vico
#30. Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
Giambattista Vico
#32. Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
Giambattista Valli
#33. People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.
Giambattista Vico
#35. I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.
Giambattista Valli
#36. Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.
Giambattista Valli
#38. The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.
Giambattista Vico
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