Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Giambattista Vico
Born: June 23, 1668
Died: January 23, 1744 (aged 75)
Bio: Giambattista Vico was an Italian political philosopher and rhetorician, historian, and jurist, recognized as a great intellectual of the Age of Enlightenment.
Known for:
- The New Science of Giambattista Vico
- On the study methods of our time
- On humanistic education
- De nostri temporis studiorum ratione