Aristotle Never Said These! | 10 Awfully Fake Aristotle Quotes | Gregory Sadler Calling Them Out!

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Fake quotes attributed to famous authors are all over the internet. And they're bad business for brains! Don't be a sucker for these by believing them uncritically, and don't repost quotes you're not sure are actually by the thinker they're attributed to, or you're making yourself part of the problem

In this video, I identify ten particularly egregiously fake quotes that are definitely not by Aristotle, but which we see falsely and frequently attributed to him in quote pages, images, and videos. I not only discuss where the quote originates from (when we know), but also why each of them is something Aristotle wouldn't have said, based on what we know Aristotle did say in his existing texts.

Here are the fake quotes we're calling out in this video:
1. Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society
2. Knowing Yourself is the Beginning of all Wisdom
3. The more you know the more you know you don’t know
4. Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim of human existence
5. Character is made by many acts: it may be lost by a single one
6. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing
7. You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor
8. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light
9. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all
10. Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in

And a bonus semi-fake quote deriving from Seneca - 11. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness

For further discussion of these, I highly recommend
Sententiae Antiquae's "Meme Police: A Collection of things Aristotle Did Not Say" - https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/09/23/meme-police-a-collection-of-things-aristotle-did-not-say/
My Medium post "On The Topic Of Criticism — What Aristotle Didn’t Say" - https://medium.com/practical-rationality/on-the-topic-of-criticism-what-aristotle-didnt-say-f606126cae92
My Quora Answer to Is Aristotle right that "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness"? - https://www.quora.com/Is-Aristotle-right-that-No-great-mind-has-ever-existed-without-a-touch-of-madness/answer/Gregory-B-Sadler-1

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0:00 Introduction
1:05 ARISTOTLE? NO! RACISTS PUT WORDS IN HIS MOUTH
2:37 ARISTOTLE? C'MON! THE INSCRIPTION AT DELPHI
5:13 ARISTOTLE? BIG NOPE!
6:21 ARISTOTLE? WRONG GUY! IT'S FROM ELBERT HUBBARD
7:35 ARISTOTLE? NOPE! IT'S FROM JAMES LANE ALLEN
9:07 GS Get Set ARISTOTLE? WRONG ONE! ATTRIBUTED TO ARISTOTLE ONASSIS
9:44 ARISTOTLE? TRY AGAIN!
10:55 ARISTOTLE? ARE YOU KIDDING? DON'T BE A SUCKER!
12:33 ARISTOTLE? NOT IN ANY WORK SENECA CLAIMS HE SAID IT

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