Plato

Plato
Platowas a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
smart political-will political-wisdom
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
suffering injustice censure
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
plato government opposites
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
mean color cooking
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping....
wise plato love-is
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
love needs hunger-and-thirst
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
men poet every-man
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
men evil good-man
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
art three use
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
plato serious importance
No human thing is of serious importance.
wine boys years
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
ideas source all-things
Ideas are the source of all things
plato opposites causes
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
hero leisure stories
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.