"The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are."
--from THE REPUBLIC by Plato
"The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."
--from THE REPUBLIC by Plato
"The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."
--from "The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation" by Plato
Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life. The translation is by A. D. Lindsay.
Note this is also translated as "our need will be the real creator."
