A Misquote That Fooled People For Hundreds of Years

The Finest Example of Taking a Quote "Out of Context"

When Someone Starts Quoting In Latin

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Philosophy Society of Monash University on The Anxiety of Love. The audience was a mixture of keen listeners, philosophy nerds and contrarians. During the Q and A section, I briefly mentioned Hegel’s lectures on Aesthetics, where he quoted the Roman Playwright Terence’s famous l…