Vico's "New Science" Quotes

“But this is the nature of etymological claims; etymology, as is widely known, can be used to prove whatever is needed.”
― Donald Phillip Verene, Vico's "New Science": A Philosophical Commentary

“Unlike Descartes, Vico demonstrates that metaphysics can rightly take its beginnings from the original insights of the most ancient mentalities, and not from the abstractions of logic and hypothetical doubt.”
― Donald Phillip Verene, Vico's "New Science": A Philosophical Commentary