A Misquote That Fooled People For Hundreds of Years
The Finest Example of Taking a Quote "Out of Context"
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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…
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