Book · 2002 · Literary Collections
Aesop's Fables
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Some of those are probably the key fundamentals of life.
What they say about it
- Moral lessons and fundamentals“good moralities and lessons”3
The best things said about it
You know what I mean? Read the "Bible" as you would read "Aesop's Fables,' right? There's just good moralities and lessons in there.
Candace Owens The Rubin Report · Nov 2021 You might wonder about the value of reading Aesop's fables and other lessons to our children, right?
Study and to read Aesop's Fables when we were really young and then to get on to more sophisticated things later.
Thomas Chatterton Williams The Daily Stoic · Sep 2022 When you desire to change your condition make sure that you can really improve it.
It's like Aesop's Fox and the grapes you know the parable where the Fox is trying to get the grapes.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
6 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Aesop's Fables by Aesop is a classic collection of moral tales attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller, designed to impart practical lessons through animal allegories. Candace Owens referenced the collection on The Rubin Report to illustrate how foundational moral lessons should be approached. On Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam questioned whether children truly absorb the intended general lessons from such stories. Thomas Chatterton Williams shared on The Daily Stoic that his father used to pay him and his brother to study the fables during childhood before moving on to more complex literature. Jamie Alderton described the stories on Modern Wisdom as containing key fundamentals of life, while Tim Pool read a superchat referencing the fable of the frogs and a king to comment on political conditions. Additionally, Sean Carroll brought up the fox and the grapes parable on The Joe Rogan Experience to draw a parallel to physicists struggling with quantum mechanics.
Every mention
Candace Owens You know what I mean? Read the "Bible" as you would read "Aesop's Fables,' right? There's just good moralit… 1
“You know what I mean? Read the "Bible" as you would read "Aesop's Fables,' right? There's just good moralities and lessons in there.”
Jamie Alderton you know aesop's fables some of those are probably the key fundamentals of life 1
“you know aesop's fables some of those are probably the key fundamentals of life”
Sean Carroll they flip it they it's like Aesop's Fox and the grapes you know the parable where the Fox is trying to get… 1
“they flip it they it's like Aesop's Fox and the grapes you know the parable where the Fox is trying to get the grapes”
Shankar Vedantam I think it makes enormous sense. But of course, if that's the lesson you draw from it, you might wonder abo… 1
“I think it makes enormous sense. But of course, if that's the lesson you draw from it, you might wonder about the value of reading Aesop's fables and other lessons to our children, right?”
Thomas Chatterton Williams and to pay us handsomely um for our age to to sit and and and study and to read Aesop's Fables when we were… 1
“and to pay us handsomely um for our age to to sit and and and study and to read Aesop's Fables when we were really young and then to get on to more sophisticated things later.”
Tim Pool Aesop's fable the frogs who desired a king when you desire to change your condition make sure that you can… 1
“Aesop's fable the frogs who desired a king when you desire to change your condition make sure that you can really improve it”
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“But the big bad wolf also shows up in German folk tales like Little Red Riding Hood by The Brothers Grimm, and in the Russian musical story, Peter and the Wolf by Sergey Prokofiev, and centuries earlier too, in one of Aesop's Fables, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”