The true history of mankind is the history of ideas. - Giovanni Vico

"The true history of mankind is the history of ideas."

Giovanni Vico History

Philosopher Historian Italian 1668–1744

More from Giovanni Vico

"Verum ipsum factum"

"We truly know only what we make"

"The true is convertible with the made"

"History is philosophy teaching by examples"

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."